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ISAAC  WATTS 


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The  gathering  of  the  data  which  are  the  bases 
of  this  little  book  was  an  offshoot  of  my  general 
interest  in  the  colledtion  of  books  made  for  the 
children  of  long  ago.  This  field  is  rich  in  human 
interest  and  leads  one  into  folk-lore  and  fairyland, 
a  delightful  avocation  for  a  man  busy  in  the  urgent 
bread-and-butter  (and  pie)  struggle  of  to-day. 

It  was  my  intention  and  ardent  desire  to  put 
forth  this  little  story  in  191 5,  to  commemorate 
the  two-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  first  edi- 
tion of  the  T>ivine  and  Moral  Songs — but — **the 
best-laid  plans  o'  mice  an'  men  gang  aft  a-gley'\ 
and  mine  were  ruthlessly  spilled;  so  instead  of 
this  book  appearing  in  191 5,  the  dear  old  world 
has  made  several  stormy  circuits  of  its  orbit  and 
the  chronologers  are  about  to  hang  out  the  sign 
for  1 9 1 9  before  a  kindly  fate  permitted  the  ful- 
fillment of  my  heart's  desire  in  this  matter.  But 
never  mind,  I  am  doubtless  the  only  one  to  be 
much  annoyed,  for  the  whole  of  191 5  passed 
without  the  appearance  of  so  much  as  a  news- 
paper paragraph,  so  far  as  I  could  discover,  rela- 
tive to  the  momentous  fa6t  that  two  hundred 
years  ago  an  immortal  book  first  saw  the  light. 

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It  may  be,  however,  of  passing  interest  to  note 
that  the  one-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  T)ivine 
Songs  was  celebrated  by  the  battle  of  Waterloo, 
and  the  two-hundredth  anniversary  found  Europe 
in  the  midst  of  a  conflid:  to  which  that  celebrated 
battle  of  1815  now  seems  like  boys'  play. 

And  so,  with  Herrick  I  say: 

"Goe  thou  forth  my  booke,  though  late; 
Yet  be  timely  fortunate, 
It  may  chance  good-luck  may  send 
Thee  a  kinsman,  or  a  friend, 
That  may  harbour  thee,  when  I, 
With  my  fates  negle6led  lye. 
If  thou  know'st  not  where  to  dwell, 
See,  the  fier's  by:  Farewell.'* 

W.  M.S. 

September,  191 8. 


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DIVINE 

SONGS 


Attempted   in   Eafy  Lan 

guage  for  the  life  of 

CHILDREN. 


By  I  WATTS. 


Out  of  the  Mouth  of  "Babes  and 
Sucklings  thou  haft  ferfecied 
Traife.     Matt.  xxi.  16. 


L  0  N  D  0  7^: 

Printed  for  M,  Lawrence  at  the  Angel 
in  the  Poultry.     1 7 15. 


"The  divine  and  ^^yxVoral  Songs 
of  Isaac  Watts 

If  the  New  England  Trimer  was  the  "little 
Bible"  of  New  England,  Dr.  Watts's  T>ivine 
and  z^oral  Songs  has  a  worthy  place  beside  it  as 
the  ''little  Hymn-book",  not  only  of  New  En- 
gland, but  of  old  England  as  well.  These  two 
juveniles  appeared  in  close  sequence  and  for 
nearly  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  jointly  con- 
tributed to  the  infant  joys,  and  doubtless  sorrows, 
of  our  sturdy  ancestors.  Even  to-day  well-nigh 
everyone  is  familiar  with  ''Let  dogs  delight  to 
bark  and  bite"  and  "How  doth  the  little  busy 
bee  improve  each  shining  hour";  but  alas,  'tis 
rarely  that  a  knowledge  of  their  authorship  is 
associated  with  a  knowledge  of  the  rhymes. 

When  these  two  little  books  were  in  vogue 
the  principal  objed:  in  teaching  children  to  read 
was  to  open  to  them  the  advantages  of  the 
Christian  religion.  Therefore  the  children's  first 
essay,  after  learning  their  letters,  was  to  acquire 
a  knowledge  of  the  Scriptures  and  the  characters 
therein  portrayed.  In  the  T^rimer  the  rhymed 
alphabet  began  with  "In  Adam's  fall  we  sinned 

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air'  and  ended  with  "Zaccheus  he,  did  climb  a 
tree,  his  Lord  to  see",  each  illustrated  with  a 
thrilling  wood-cut.  The  T>ivine  Songs  opens 
with  a  "General  hymn  of  praise"  and  closes 
with  the  cradle  hymn  "Hush,  my  dear,  lie  still 
and  slumber",  all  calculated  to  inculcate  grace 
and  wisdom. 

Before  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century 
modern  influences  toward  secularization  in  edu- 
cation crowded  the  New  England  T^rimer  into 
oblivion,  and  it  has  survived  only  on  the  shelves 
of  colleftors  and  in  a  few  reprints  as  a  curiosity 
of  bygone  days.  The  Divine  Songs  has  fared 
better,  as  it  is  still  kept  in  print  by  one  or  two 
of  our  publishing  concerns,  and  several  beautiful, 
illustrated  editions  have  been  issued  in  very  recent 
years.  The  New  England  T^rimer  has  long  been 
considered  as  having  the  highest  record  of  edi- 
tions and  quantity  published  of  any  of  the  old 
juveniles,  but  I  am  convinced  that  it  must  yield 
first  place  to  the  T>ivine  Songs,  There  are  of 
record  about  three  hundred  and  fifty  editions  of 
the  T^rimer,  but  I  have  been  able  to  gather  about 
two  hundred  and  fifty  editions  of  the  Divine 
Songs  in  the  British  list  and  over  three  hundred 
in  the  American  list.  It  would  be  impossible  to 
state  the  total  number  of  copies  printed,  but  as- 
suming that  the  accepted  estimate  of  six  and  one 

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half  million  for  the  'Primer  is  approximately 
corred:,  we  must  grant  that  the  Divine  Songs 
stands  with  a  total  number  of  copies  to  its  credit 
considerably  in  excess  of  that  number. 

Isaac  Watts,  the  eldest  of  nine  children,  was 
born  at  Southampton  on  the  17th  of  July,  1674, 
about  sixteen  years  after  the  death  of  Oliver 
Cromwell.  His  father  was  a  schoolmaster,  a 
man  of  excellent  mental  attainments  and  a  Dis- 
senter who  suffered  persecution  for  his  convic- 
tions, even  to  the  extent  of  imprisonment.  This 
was  during  the  reign  of  Charles  II,  when  non- 
conformity was  looked  upon  as  a  crime.  Young 
Isaac  was  reared  in  this  atmosphere  of  protest, 
and  it  is  of  record  that  while  the  father  lay  in 
prison  "Mrs.  Watts  was  seen  sitting  on  a  stone, 
near  the  prison  door,  suckling  her  son  Isaac/' 
Little  Isaac  was  a  precocious  child,  reading  Latin 
at  four,  and  was  known  as  a  boy  w^ho  loved  his 
books  more  than  his  play.  The  result  was  that 
his  over-studious  habits  greatly  militated  against 
his  health,  and  during  most  of  his  life  he  was  a 
physical  weakling. 

A  vivid  pen-pid:ure  of  this  anemic  boy  in  his 
school  days  is  given  in  a  review  of  a  new  edition 
of  some  of  his  later  works,  in  the  North  British 
Review  in  1857.    The  reviewer  writes: 

[II] 


The  'Divine  and  z^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

**In  the  gloomy  reign  of  James  II,  the  most  dili- 
gent boy  in  the  Grammar  School  of  Southampton  was 
a  little  Puritan.  So  tiny,  that  he  would  hardly  have 
passed  for  eleven  years  of  age,  he  was  so  grave  and 
good,  as  to  be  at  once  a  model  and  a  reproof  to  his 
sturdier  class-mates;  and,  although  in  repose  there  was 
nothing  peculiarly  prepossessing  in  his  pale  face,  with 
its  prominent  cheekbones,  and  a  forehead  far  from 
lofty,  the  moment  that  some  hard  question  posed  the 
form,  the  sparkling  eye  and  the  light  nervous  figure 
quivering  with  the  pent-up  answer,  betrayed  the  genius 
and  the  scholar.  Already  he  had  made  good  profi- 
ciency in  French,  Latin,  and  Greek,  and  had  delighted 
his  mother,  whilst  he  astonished  his  companions,  by 
ingenious  acrostics  and  clever  impromptu  stanzas;  and 
altogether,  with  his  quiet,  docile  disposition,  and  his 
precocious  attainments,  he  made  glad  the  heart  of  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Pinhorn,  who,  like  many  a  disconsolate  pre- 
ceptor before  and  since,  at  last  foresaw  a  dim  and  dis- 
tant Ararat,  and  hailed  the  youth  who  should  yet 
'comfort  him  concerning  his  work  and  the  toil  of  his 
hands.' " 

When  he  was  twenty-two,  in  1696,  young 
Watts  became  tutor  to  the  children  of  a  wealthy 
friend  of  his  family  at  Stoke-Newington,  and  two 
years  later,  while  thus  employed,  he  preached 
his  first  sermon  on  his  twenty-fourth  birthday  as 
assistant  to  Dr.  Chauncy,  minister  of  the  Inde- 
pendent congregation  in  Mark  Lane,  London. 
In  1702  he  succeeded  to  Dr.  Chauncy's  pastor- 

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ate,  taking  full  charge  of  the  congregation.  But 
his  frail  health  soon  necessitated  an  assistant  with 
whom  to  share  his  burdens. 

In  Dr.  Watts's  congregation  was  Sir  Thomas 
Abney  and  his  family.  Sir  Thomas  was  for  many 
years  an  alderman  of  the  city  of  London  and  at  one 
time  its  mayor.  Dr.  Watts  in  171  2,  at  the  age 
of  thirty-eight,  succumbed  to  the  arduous  tasks 
of  his  ministry  and  quite  collapsed.  Lady  Abney, 
ever  elert  in  good  works,  took  the  worthy  par- 
son to  Theobalds,  their  country  home  at  Stoke- 
Newington,  for  a  few  weeks'  rest  and  fresh  air. 
His  visit  has  come  down  to  us  as  a  record  for 
length.  The  weeks  sped  on  and  then  the  years, 
and  still  he  continued  a  welcome  and  honored 
guest  until  his  death  thirty-six  years  after  his  ad- 
vent to  that  hospitable  household.  While  under 
the  sheltering  roof  of  Theobalds,  Dr.  Watts 
wrote  several  of  his  justly  celebrated  works  and  in 
171 5  gave  to  the  world  the  memorable  volume 
oi  T>ivine  Songs  for  Children,  In  graceful  ac- 
knowledgment of  his  guestship,  he  dedicated  that 
little  book  to  Sarah,  Mary  and  Elizabeth  Abney, 
the  three  daughters  of  Sir  Thomas  and  Lady 
Abney.  One  of  the  two  known  copies  of  the 
first  edition  of  the  T)ivine  Songs  bears  on  the 
inside  of  its  front  cover  in  Dr.  Watts's  hand- 
writing, "To  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Abney,  I.  W." 
Of  course  Elizabeth,  a  child  of  eleven,  was  not 

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**Mrs/'  in  our  present  understanding  of  that  term, 
but  "Mistress'',  used  as  an  expression  of  respedt 
even  to  children  at  that  time. 

This  presentation  copy  has  found  a  home  in 
the  sumptuous  library  of  the  late  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan,  and  another  first  edition  of  one  of  Dr. 
Watts's  books  in  that  library  is  similarly  inscribed 
to  another  daughter  of  the  Abneys'. 

The  Morgan  copy  of  the  first  edition  of  ©/- 
vine  Songs  was  specially  bound  in  red  morocco 
rather  elaborately  gold-tooled.  This  copy  had 
an  interesting  career  before  reaching  its  present 
resting-place.  It  was  picked  up  by  a  Nottingham 
bookseller  with  a  handful  of  other  old  books  in 
a  country  house  in  1902,  at  a  cost  of  less  than  a 
guinea  for  the  lot.  It  had  come  down  to  its  previ- 
ous owner  from  her  great-grandfather,  Meredith 
Townsend,  co-pastor  with  Dr.  Watts  at  Stoke- 
Newington.  The  bookseller  sold  it  to  Mr.  James 
Ward,  a  collector  of  Nottingham,  for  about  ;^30 
and  by  him  it  was  sold  at  Sotheby's,  after  spirited 
bidding,  for  ;^I55  to  Mr.  Morgan's  agent.  The 
following  Christmas,  in  a  privately  printed  book- 
let, Mr.  Ward  distributed  to  a  few  friends  a  most 
interesting  history  of  this  little  volume. 

In  the  thirteen  pages  of  dedication  which  ap- 
pears in  the  earlier  editions  of  the  T>ivine  Songs^ 
Dr.  Watts  pays  pleasing  tribute  to  the  hospitality 
of  the  Abney  family,  beginning  as  follows: 


T^he  T>tvine  and  <J)(Coral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

**My  Dear  Young  Friends,  Whom  I  am  constrained 
to  love  and  honour  by  many  ObHgations.  It  was  the 
generous  and  condescending  Friendship  of  your  Par- 
ents under  my  weak  Circumstances  of  Health;  that 
brought  me  to  their  Country-Seat  for  the  Benefit  of 
the  Air;  but  it  was  an  Instance  of  most  uncommon 
Kindness,  to  supply  me  there  so  cheerfully  for  two 
Years  of  Sickness  with  the  richest  Conveniences  of 
Life.  Such  a  Favour  requires  my  most  affedionate  Re- 
turns of  Service  to  themselves,  and  to  all  that  is  dear 
to  them;  and  meer  Gratitude  demands  some  solemn 
and  public  acknowledgment." 

The  dedication  then  goes  on  to  praise  not 
only  Sir  Thomas  and  his  wife,  but  particularly 
their  three  daughters  whose  education  Dr.  Watts 
superintended,  and  closes  with  the  following 
benedidtion : 

**  May  the  Blessings  of  his  Right  Hand  more  enrich 
you  daily,  as  your  Capacities  and  your  Years  increase; 
and  may  he  add  bountifully  of  the  Favours  of  his  Left 
Hand,  Riches  and  Honour.  May  his  Grace  make  you 
so  large  a  Return  of  all  the  Kindness  I  have  received 
in  your  Family,  as  may  prevail  above  the  fondest  Hopes 
of  your  Parents,  and  even  exceed  the  warmest  Prayers 
of  Your  most  Affectionate 

Monitor  and  Obliged 

Servant,  in  the  daily 

Views  of  a  future 

'  I.  Watts. 


Theobalds, 
June  i8, 
1715. 


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This  quaint  dedication  was  omitted  from  those 
editions  printed  after  1750,  but  the  preface,  ''To 
all  that  are  concerned  in  the  Education  of  Chil- 
dren", has  persisted  to  this  day  in  nearly  every 
edition  that  has  come  to  my  observation.  This 
preface  is  addressed  to  "My  Friends'',  and  be- 
gins **It  is  an  awful  and  important  Charge,  that  is 
committed  to  you.  The  Wisdom  and  Welfare  of 
the  succeeding  Generation  are  entrusted  with  you 
beforehand,  and  depend  much  on  your  Con- 
dud: Verse  was  at  first  designed  for  the  Service 

of  God,  though  it  hath  been  wretchedly  abused 

since What  is  learnt  in  Verse,  is  longer  retained 

in  Memory,  and  sooner  recolledted These  ©/- 

vine  Songs  may  be  a  pleasant  and  proper  Matter 
for  their  daily  or  weekly  Worship,  to  sing  one 
in  the  Family,  at  such  time  as  the  Parents  or 
Governors  shall  appoint;  and  therefore  I  have 
confined  the  Verse  to  the  most  usual  Psalm 
Tunes.  The  greatest  Part  of  this  little  Book 
was  composed  several  Years  ago,  at  the  Request 
of  a  Friend,  who  has  been  long  engaged  in  the 
Work  of  Catechising  a  very  great  Number  of 
Children  of  all  kinds,  and  with  abundant  Skill 
and  Success.  So  that  you  will  find  here  nothing 
that  savours  of  a  Party:  The  Children  of  high 
and  low  Degree,  of  the  Church  of  England  or 
Dissenters,  baptized  in  Infancy,  or  not,  may  all 
join  together  in  these  Songs.     And  as  I  have  en- 

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deavoured  to  sink  the.  Language  to  a  Level  of  a 
Child's  Understanding,  and  yet  to  keep  it  (if 
possible)  above  Contempt;  so  I  have  design'd  to 
profit  all  (if  possible)  and  offend  none/' 

Then  he  closes  with  a  reference  to  the  oJWoral 
Songs  as  follows:  "I  have  added  at  the  End  an 
Attempt  or  two  of  Sonnets  on  Moral  SuhjeBs  for 
Children,  with  an  Air  of  Pleasantry,  to  provoke 
some  fitter  Pen  to  write  a  little  Book  of  them." 
The  earliest  record  I  have  found  of  one  so  ** pro- 
voked'' is  in  the  preface  to  Mrs.  Barbauld's 
** Hymns  in  Prose,  For  Children",  published 
about  1775.  There  she  writes,  "Among  the 
number  of  Books  composed  for  the  use  of  chil- 
dren, though  there  are  many,  and  some  on  a 
very  rational  plan,  which  unfold  the  system,  and 
give  a  summary  of  the  doctrines  of  Religion,  it 
would  be  difficult  to  find  one  calculated  to  assist 
them  in  the  devotional  part  of  it,  except  indeed 
JDr.  Watts' s  Hymns  for  Children.  These  are  in 
pretty  general  use;  and  the  Author  is  deservedly 
honoured  for  the  condescension  of  his  Muse; 
which  is  very  able  to  take  a  loftier  flight." 

It  is  not,  however,  until  the  early  part  of  the 
nineteenth  century  that  I  find  a  work  in  direct 
imitation  of  Dr.  Watts's  little  book.  Then  in 
close  sequence  several  volumes  of  verses  for  chil- 
dren appeared,  the  authors  of  each  of  which 
acknowledged  the  impetus  to  their  muse  from 

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Dr.  Watts's  preface.  The  first  of  these  was  **  Moral 
Songs  for  the  Instruction  and  Amusement  of 
Children  Intended  as  a  Companion  to  Dr.  Watts' 
Divine  Songs,  by  John  Oakman  and  Others." 
This  was  published  in  London  in  1802  by  Darton 
and  Harvey.  The  preface  states,  "Whoever  fol- 
lows the  manner  of  another  who  has  been  happy 
in  any  particular  way,  however  successful  he  may 
prove  in  his  labours,  will  only  gain  the  servile 
name  of  an  imitator.  A  man  so  eminent  as  Dr. 
Watts  has  been  in  his  Hymns  and  Moral  Songs, 
for  the  edification  of  children,  it  must  be  granted, 
there  is  little  hope  of  following  with  much  suc- 
cess  But  as  he  declared  himself  there  is  much 

room  left  to  proceed  in  the  same  way,  and  has 
in  a  manner  exhorted  others  to  pursue  his  ideas, 
the  Author  of  this  little  book  hopes  to  be  ex- 
cused for  the  attempt  if  not  applauded."  And 
surely  the  author  of  these  later  ''Moral  Songs"  is 
open  to  the  accusation  of  being  a  ''servile  imi- 
tator", as  witness  one  extract: : 

Danger  of  <i^isp ending  'Time 

How  craftily  the  spider  weaves, 
And  draws  her  slender  threads ! 

Yet  sudden  chance  her  hopes  deceives, 
And  spoils  the  net  she  spreads. 

Let  me  not  spend  my  precious  hours 

In  trifling  works  like  these ; 
But  still  employ  my  a6live  pow'rs 

In  what  may  truly  please. 

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The  style  well  copied  but  the  inspiration  feeble 
and  the  moral  hardly  deducible  from  the  subjedl. 
A  few  years  later,  the  Taylor  sisters,  Jane,  Ann, 
Mary  and  the  rest  of  them,  who  had  in  1803 
been  very  successful  with  their  ** Original  Poems 
for  Infant  Minds",  published  a  volume  entitled 
''Hymns  for  Infant  Minds".  These  young  women 
in  their  preface  acknowledge  their  indebtedness 
to  Dr.  Watts  as  follows: 

"The  'Divine  Songs'  of  Dr.  Watts,  so  beautiful, 
and  so  universally  admired,  almost  discourage,  by  their 
excellence,  a  similar  attempt;  and  lead  the  way,  where 
it  appears  temerity  to  follow.  But  as  the  narrow  limits 
to  which  he  confined  himself,  excluded  a  number  of 
useful  subjedls,  the  following  Hymns,  though  with 
much  diffidence,  are  presented  to  the  public." 

It  was  not  long  after  the  T)ivine  Songs  rode 
into  popularity  on  wave  after  wave  of  editions 
that  itching  fingers  began  to  busy  themselves  with 
alterations  and  modifications  of  these  simple  and 
sincere  verses.  As  early  as  1720  one  Cobbin,  a 
reverend  doctor,  conceived  the  idea  that  the  work 
would  be  more  useful  with  Scripture  references 
appended  to  each  song.  So  he  forthwith  lum- 
bered up  the  little  volume  with  voluminous  foot- 
notes of  references  and  comments,  but  thanks  be, 
the  dear  children  could  skip  all  this  dry  stuff. 


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Then  later  the  strong  theology  of  some  of  the 
songs  annoyed  our  good  friends  the  Unitarians 
and  they,  by  the  hand  of  one  who  modestly  sub- 
scribed herself  on  the  title-page  as  *'A  Lady'', 
proceeded  to  take  the  starch  out  of  some  of  the 
more  rigid  ones,  to  sprinkle  in  a  little  ''probation 
after  death''  and  entirely  omit  Song  III,  'Traise 
to  God  for  redemption  through  Jesus  Christ." 
That  song  was  a  bit  too  Trinitarian  for  remod- 
eling. Dr.  Watts's  delightful  preface  is  omitted 
and  a  new  preface  setting  forth  the  reasons  for 
revision  and  alteration,  is  substituted.  This  is 
signed  "E.  Y."  and  dated  November   17,  1785. 

This  "Revised  and  Altered"  form  evidently 
proved  popular,  as  a  second  edition  appeared  in 
1787,  with  an  added  note  that  "A  large  impres- 
sion of  the  first  edition  of  these  Hymns,  Revised 
and  Altered,  having  been  favorably  received  by 
the  public,  the  editor  has  been  encouraged  to 
give  further  attention  to  their  improvement,  and 
to  cause  them  to  be  printed  in  their  present  form." 
The  fair  reviser  was  brave  enough  to  retain  Song 
XI,  "Heaven  and  Hell",  but  replaced  Dr.  Watts's 
second  stanza 

"There  is  a  dreadful  Hell, 
And  everlasting  Pains, 
Where  Sinners  must  with  Devils  dwell. 
In  Darkness,  Fire,  and  Chains." 


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with  the  following,  much  more  comforting  to  a 
naughty  world 

"There  also  is  a  future  state, 
Of  Mis'ry,  grief  and  pain  ; 
Where  wicked  children  long  must  wait, 
And  many  years  remain." 

And  in  verse  4,  Dr.  Watts  wrote 

"Lest  I  should  be  cut  off  Today, 
And  sent  t'  eternal  Death." 

for  the  last  line  of  which  she  has  substituted 
"And  suffer  after  death." 

In  the  first  verse  of  Song  XII,  **The  Advantages 
of  early  Religion",  Dr.  Watts's  last  line  reads 

"The  Road  that  leads  to  Hell." 

and  which  our  tender  reviser  changes  to 
"The  Road  that  leads  to  ill." 

In  Song  XIII,  verse  5,  Dr.  Watts  wrote 

"One  stroke  of  his  almighty  Rod, 

Shall  send  young  Sinners  quick  to  Hell." 

Our  reviser  changed  the  last  line  to  read 

"May  send  young  sinners  to  the  grave." 

"Jesus  who  reigns  above  the  Sky, 
And  keeps  the  World  in  Awe," 

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are  the   first   two  lines  of  verse   2,  Song  XIV. 
These  are  changed  to 

"Jesus  tho'  now  above  the  sky, 
Beloved  by  his  God". 

The  last  verse  of  Song  XV  begins 

"Then  let  me  always  watch  my  Lips, 
Lest  I  be  struck  to  Death  and  Hell." 

The  second  line  is  altered  to 

"And  keep  my  Tongue  from  ill." 

In  verse  4  of  Song  XVII  Dr.  Watts  wrote 

"The  Devil  tempts  one  Mother's  Son," 

The  revised  edition  reads 

"Passion,  and  Pride,  may  tempt  each  one". 

From  the  revised  version  of  Song  XVIII, 
''Against  Scoffing  and  calling  Names",  the  ref- 
erence to  the  children  who  scoffed  Elisha  is 
omitted  by  dropping  out  verses  4  and  5,  as  fol- 
lows: 

"When  Children  in  their  wanton  Play, 

Serv'd  old  Elisha  so  ; 
And  bid  the  Prophet  go  his  Way, 
*Go  up,  thou  Bald-head,  go'; 

"God  quickly  stopt  their  wicked  Breath, 
And  sent  two  raging  Bears, 
That  tore  them  Limb  from  Limb  to  Death, 
With  Blood,  and  Groans,  and  Tears." 

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In  Song  XXIII,  "Obedience  to  Parents",  verse 
3  was  originally  written 

**What  heavy  Guilt  upon  him  lies! 
How  cursed  is  his  Name ! 
The  Ravens  shall  pick  out  his  Eyes, 
And  Eagles  eat  the  same." 

has  been  softened  to  the  following: 

"What  heavy  Guilt  upon  him  lies ! 
How  hateful  is  his  Name  ! 
Who  thus  his  Parents  shall  despise, 
Will  bring  Himself  to  Shame." 

Listed  among  the  T)rcine  Songs  in  the  British 
Museum  are  the  following  collateral  items:  ''Di- 
vine Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language.  (A 
sequel  to  Dr.  Watts's  divine  songs  for  children 
and  schools.)  The  Rake  reformed  in  the  House 
of  Mourning.  The  Cottage  Library  of  Christian 
Knowledge  etc.  Vol.  I.''  1806  (?)  8°;  and  "A 
Supplement  to  Dr.  Watts's  Divine  Songs  for  the 
use  of  Children,  selected  from  various  authors. 
London."    1820  (.?)   12°. 

From  another  source  I  find,  "Essays  adapted 
to  Dr.  Watts'  Divine  Songs.  For  the  instruction 
of  young  people.  By  Rev.  A.  Scott.  13th  edi- 
tion. London:  Printed  for  Thomas  Tegg.  i  841 . 
Illustrated." 

In  an  edition  published  in  Exeter,  in  1 8 1 2, 
entitled  "Dr.  Watts's  Hymns  for  Children,  Re- 

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vised  and  Altered,  so  as  to  render  them  of  Gen- 
eral Use'',  the  editor,  who  modestly  signs  him- 
self "C",  explains  as  follows:  **Dr.  Watts,  in 
the  Preface  to  his  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for 
Children,  says;  'You  will  see  here  nothing  that 
savours  of  a  party,'  nevertheless  it  cannot  be  de- 
nied, that,  in  several  parts  of  these  Hymns,  ex- 
pressions do  occur,  which  are  objectionable  to 
many  Christians;  and  which,  there  is  reason  to 
believe,  the  amiable  and  excellent  Author  would 
have  avoided,  had  he  written  them  toward  the 
latter  part  of  his  life."  Our  editor  then  goes  on 
to  state  which  obnoxious  weeds  he  has  uprooted 
and  what  new  flowers  he  has  transplanted  from 
other  gardens.  Of  some  of  the  latter  he  says: 
"The  next  five,  Nos.  9  to  13,  I  have  taken  the 
liberty  of  inserting  from  a  very  superior  little 
publication,  entitled  'Hymns  for  Infant  Minds'." 
But  even  here  our  editor  must  have  a  slap  at  the 
theology  of  the  gentle  ''Taylor  sisters",  and  which 
he  does  in  the  following  terms,  throwing  in  a 
sop  at  the  end  to  mitigate  the  bitter:  "I  cannot 
agree  with  the  respectable  Authors  in  some  of  the 
opinions  which  their  Hymns  express,  because  I 
do  not  think  those  opinions  are  the  doCtrine  of 
the  Scriptures;  but  I  have  no  hesitation  in  ear- 
nestly recommending  the  book  to  all  judicious 
Parents." 

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The  inscriptions  of  presentation  and  owner- 
ship in  some  of  the  old  copies  of  the  TDivine 
Songs  are  quaintly  interesting.  In  one,  printed 
in  Boston  in  1759,  is  found  on  the  reverse  of  the 
title-page  in  almost  illegible  characters,  "Bithrah 
norton  |  hur  buk",  and  then  follows  several 
words  entirely  undecipherable.  Lower  down  on 
the  page  in  a  later  and  more  readable  hand  is 
written,  *' Sarah  Norton  her  |  Book  God  Give 
her  Grace  therein  to  look  |  and  when  the  bells 
do  I  for  her  tole  Lord  Jesus  |  Christ".  .  .  .  and 
there  the  leaf  is  torn  off. 

In  a  London  copy  of  1773,  which  is  thumbed 
well-nigh  to  pieces,  the  fly-leaf  is  inscribed  in 
elaborate  childish  printing,  ** Samuel,  Hovey.| 
Junr:  &  Lydia,  Hovey.  |  Junr.  our  Book 
Given  |  To  us  By  the  Schoolmast  |  er  of  Buxton 
July  y^  2 1 5^  1774''.  Then  on  the  inside  of  the 
front  cover  there  appears  in  a  crabbed  running 
hand,  "To  Mehitabel  |  And  Phebe  Hovey  |  This 
with  our  Love  to  you  |  Both  for  you  to  remem  | 
ber  us  by  |  Sam^^  Hovey  |  and  Lydia  Hovey''; 
while  near  the  foot  of  the  inside  of  the  front 
cover  is  inscribed  in  shaky  childish  characters, 
"T^t/^  S/20R/  I  /itR  ^oo/(^  I  ^ge^  seven  \  yeaRs''. 
So  this  little  volume  bears  records  of  what 
seem  to  be  three  generations  of  lovers  of  these 
old  songs. 

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The  fly-leaf  of  a  copy  printed  in  London  in 
1 779  bears  the  inscription  in  bold,  childishly 
printed  letters  covering  the  whole  page,  ''Wil- 
liam I  shErWood  |  MARCh  23  |  1788". 

In  another  copy  bearing  a  London  imprint 
and  dated  1780  is  ''William  Hayward  his  Book 
I  Drayton  |  October  16  1782'',  all  written  the 
long  way  of  the  page  and  apparently  by  a  grown 
person.  Later  William  himself  took  a  hand 
and  in  an  upper  unoccupied  corner  scribbled 
"William  |  Haywood  |  Drayton  |  Berks'*. 

In  another  London  copy,  1787,  in  a  fine 
feminine  hand,  is  written  "Catherine  Wright  | 
her  book  |  The  Gift  of  the  |  Rev^  Dr.  Priestly". 

Inside  the  back  cover  of  a  copy  printed  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1809,  is  pasted  a  presen- 
tation book-plate,  home-made,  and  bearing  a 
border  of  vine  and  leaves  in  green,  while  within 
the  border  is  inscribed  in  a  fine  schoolmistress 
hand,  "Hannah  Kendall's  Book  |  given  her  by 
her  Instructress  |  as  a  reward  of  merit". 

A  Boston  copy  of  1818  was  once  "George  T. 
Read's  Book  |  Presented  to  him  by  his  Aunt 
Eliza  Read  1856  |  Belfast";  doubtless  Belfast, 
Maine.  But  an  avaricious  member  of  the  family, 
doubtless  of  a  later  and  degenerate  descent,  ruth- 
lessly crossed  off  this  inscription  and  wrote 
the  long  way  of  the  page  and  nearer  its  base, 
"Charlotte  Read's  Book". 

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The  only  record  I  have  encountered  to  indi- 
cate that  the  TDivine  Songs  was  used  regularly 
as  a  Sunday  School  song-book  occurs  in  a  copy 
dated  "London  1828."  Pasted  on  the  reverse  of 
the  title  in  this  book  is  a  label  headed  ''The  Prot- 
estant Dissenters'  |  Sunday  School,  |  at  |  Christ- 
church  Meeting."  This  heading  is  followed  by 
a  number  of  Biblical  quotations  beginning  with 
**Suffer  little  children,  etc."  Pasted  inside  the 
back  cover  is  a  similar  label  similarly  headed. 
Then  we  find  this  admonition:  "No  scholar  in 
this  School  to  be  allowed  to  swear,  lie,  nor 
fight; — nor  to  be  disobedient  to  Masters,  Par- 
ents, or  Guardians",  followed  by  more  Scrip- 
ture texts,  and  finally,  "Sabbath  Schools  are 
of  the  utmost  importance  when  judiciously  con- 
duced." 

In  another,  a  New  Haven,  Conn.,  copy,  1824, 
on  the  title-page  itself  is  written  "Master  George 
and  Miss  S.  E.  Derby  |  from  their  affeftionate 
mother  |  August  2^  1826".  Lower  down  on  the 
same  page  and  in  the  same  hand  appears,  "Suff^er 
little  children  to  come  |  unto  me  for  of  such  is 
the  kingdom  of  Heaven". 

And  lastly,  a  modern  copy  containing  numer- 
ous, most  delightful,  colored  illustrations  by  Mrs. 
Arthur  Gaskin,  is  inscribed  by  the  artist  to  the 
author  of  this  essay — a  cherished  possession. 

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Numerous  memorials  and  biographies  of  Dr. 
Watts  have  been  written  since  his  death,  but 
perhaps  the  most  elaborate  and  exhaustive  was 
published  in  London  in  1 9 1 4,  written  by  Thomas 
Wright,  the  author  of  several  other  biographies 
of  notable  men  of  the  past.  In  this  work  con- 
siderable space  is  devoted  to  a  relation  of  the 
environment  and  influence  under  which  the  Di- 
vine and  rJ)(Coral  Songs  were  written.  Mr.  Wright 
very  circumstantially  tells  the  story  of  a  visit, 
''apparently  in  the  spring  of  1720",  by  Dr. 
Watts  to  Hedingham  Castle,  Essex,  the  home 
of  Mr.  Robert  Ashhurst,  who  had  married  Lady 
Abney's  sister.  Our  author  states  that  some  of 
the  Divine  and  ^JWoral  Songs  were  written  there 
during  that  visit.  He  further  relates,  "The  pretty 
poem  'How  doth  the  little  busy  bee'  was  proba- 
bly not  only  a  kindly  message  to  children,  but 
also  a  humorous  compliment  to  the  industry  and 
taste  displayed  by  Mr.  Ashhurst  in  restoring  his 
house.''  But  alas !  in  view  of  the  fad:  that  at 
least  two  copies  of  the  first  edition,  each  plainly 
dated  171  5,  are  in  existence,  and  one  of  which 
I  have  minutely  examined,  our  credulity  is  a  bit 
overtaxed  by  Mr.  Wright's  narrative;  and  we 
wish  he  had  not  been  so  detailed  and  particular  in 
his  description  of  events  and  circumstances  that 
could  not  possibly  have  occurred  prior  to  or  in 

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connedlion  with  the  writing  of  the  Divine  Songs. 
We  also  read  in  the  preface  to  the  first  edition 
of  171 5,  ''The  greater  part  of  this  little  book 
was  composed  several  years  ago  at  the  request  of 
a  friend." 

The  revised  edition,  first  published  in  1785, 
continued  to  appear  over  a  long  period,  and  as 
late  as  1803,  in  the  (guardian  of  Education,  is 
found  a  scathing  review  of  this  emasculated 
work.  Mrs.  Trimmer,  the  editor  of  the  (guard- 
ian, had  previously  been  accused  of  having  been 
the  reviser,  but  she  emphatically  denies  all  re- 
sponsibility and  unequivocally  censures  the  edi- 
tor for  having  so  radically  changed  the  theology 
set  forth  by  Dr.  Watts  in  these  small  hymns. 
She  further  remarks,  "The  Hosannas  in  Dr. 
Watts's  original  work,  are  perfedtly  agreeable  to 
Scripture,  and  so  impressive,  that  we  cannot  recon- 
cile ourselves  to  the  exchange  of  them  for  Dr. 
Clarke's.  Neither  can  we  readily  part  either 
with  the  'Hymn  of  Praise  to  God  for  Redemp- 
tion'; or  with  'The  Cradle  Hymn'.  However,  as 
Christians,  we  wish  not  to  deprive  those  who  are 
satisfied  with  this  mutilated  edition  of  the  edifi- 
cation it  still  affords;  but  let  them  on  their  side 
allow  to  the  children  of  the  Church  the  full 
benefit  of  the  author's  pious  labours." 

In  this  same  volume  is  reviewed  a  little  book 
published  by  Darton  &  Harvey,  entitled  "Moral 

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Songs  for  the  Instrudlion  and  Amusement  of 
Children,  intended  as  a  companion  to  Dr. 
Watts's  Divine  Songs,  by  John  Oakman  and 
others."  In  reviewing  this  little  w^ork,  Mrs. 
Trimmer  states,  ''Though  Dr.  Watts's  Divine 
Songs  have  excited  many  writers  to  imitate 
them,  they  still  remain  unrivalled.  No  work  of 
the  kind  that  we  have  yet  met  with,  is  worthy 
to  be  compared  to  them,  for  beauty  of  composi- 
tion and  elegant  simplicity  of  style." 

Though  a  bit  upsetting  in  chronological  se- 
quence, I  cannot  refrain  from  referring  here  to 
another  much  later  tribute  by  Mrs.  S.  C.  Hall, 
who  in  her  ** Pilgrimages  to  English  Shrines" 
(Appleton,  1854),  says  of  Dr.  Watts,  "But  after 
all,  his  popularity  is  based  on  the  universal 
knowledge  of  his  Divine  and  Moral  Songs;  and 
never  was  popularity  more  widely  diffused,  better 
merited  or  produd:ive  of  more  glorious  results." 

Unscrupulous  publishers  continued  to  mutilate 
this  little  work,  and  there  are  also  some  interest- 
ing differences  between  British  and  American  edi- 
tions.   In  Song  V  as  originally  published  God  is 

praised 

"That  I  was  born  on  British  ground." 

While  in  some  of  the  American  editions  this 
form  was  retained,  still  as  early  as  1799  in  the 
Boston  edition  of  Coverly  it  is  changed  to 

"That  I  was  born  on  Christian  ground." 

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In  the  Cambridge  (U.S.)  edition  published  by 
the  trustees  of  Phillips'  Academy,  the  last  line 
of  the  fifth  verse  reads 

"Teach  me  thy  goodness  to  admire." 

while  the  original  reads 

"Warn  me  to  'scape  eternal  fire." 

The  editor  of  this  Cambridge  edition  fell  into 
an  error  in  the  last  line  of  verse  i,  Song  XVI, 
that  has  persisted  in  many,  many  editions.  In 
the  original  this  first  verse  reads: 

"Let  Dogs  delight  to  bark  and  bite, 
For  God  hath  made  them  so ; 
Let  Bears  and  Lions  growl  and  fight, 
For  'tis  their  natures  too." 

The  Cambridge  error  consisted  in  printing  the 
last  word  of  the  verse  **to''. 

In  many  of  the  modern  editions  the  old  form 
'*that"  is  changed  to  '"which". 

The  learned  editor  in  Cambridge  blundered 
in  pund:uation  also.  In  Song  XV,  verse  i,  he 
inserted  a  comma  in  the  last  line  after  "all" 
that  quite  destroys  the  sense;  and  again  in  the 
last  line  of  verse  2,  Song  XX,  the  comma  in- 
serted after  **food"  is  worse  than  superfluous. 

Many  publishers  of  juvenile  books  drew  gen- 
erously upon  the  storehouse  of  the  Divine  and 

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<!jlfCoral  Songs,  In  the  1781  Boston  edition  of 
Janeway's  **Token  for  Children'*  are  included 
Songs  XII,  XIII  and  XIV.  In  "Choice  Poetry" 
published  at  Derby,  England,  in  1835,  are  four 
of  the  T>ivtne  Songs,  two  of  the  <J)(Coral  Songs  and 
the  Cradle  Hymn.  In  '^Reading  Made  Easy'' 
published  by  J.  Weatherly,  Berwick,  about  1 820, 
under  the  general  heading  "Lessons  in  Verse", 
are  printed  eight  of  the  T>ivine  Songs,  A  num- 
ber of  editions  of  the  New  England  Primer  con- 
tain selections  from  the  same  source. 

Dr.  Watts  in  his  preface  states  that  the  Divine 
and  Moral  Songs  were  intended  to  be  sung  to  well- 
known  psalm  tunes,  but  before  the  end  of  the 
eighteenth  century  editions  with  special  music 
began  to  appear.  In  1800  Dr.  Jackson  published 
an  edition  wherein  words  and  music  were  en- 
graved throughout  on  copper  plates. 

Although  early  in  the  eighteenth  century 
many  children's  books  were  issued  with  illus- 
trations, usually  crude  wood-cuts,  I  have  been 
unable  to  find  an  illustrated  edition  of  the  Divine 
and  Moral  Songs  in  England  earlier  than  1760 
and  in  America  earlier  than  1773.  In  the  be- 
ginning of  the  nineteenth  century  illustrated  edi- 
tions were  more  frequent,  and  one  published  in 
London  in  1823  ^^^  ^^  ornate  folding  frontis- 
piece in  colors.    With  the  revival  of  wood  en- 

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graving  between  1840  and  1850,  there  appeared 
a  number  of  elaborately  illustrated  editions  with 
pidtures  by  eminent  artists.  Perhaps  the  most 
beautifully  illustrated  edition  of  this  period  was 
that  published  by  John  Van  Voorst  in  London. 
This  appeared  in  1848  and  contains  thirty  pic- 
tures drawn  on  the  wood  by  C.W.  Cope,  a.r.a, 
and  cut  by  John  Thompson.  They  are  definitely 
illustrative  of  the  text  and  are  most  daintily  con- 
ceived and  executed.  These  illustrations  were  ex- 
tensively copied  in  later  editions  by  other  pub- 
lishers, particularly  in  America.  The  first  issue 
of  this  edition  contained  on  page  28  the  "Death 
Print"  as  a  tailpiece  to  the  song  ''Heaven  and 
Hell".  This  picture  was  evidently  too  realistic 
and  too  fully  illustrative  of  the  song,  so  it  was 
promptly  suppressed  and  replaced  by  one  from 
a  now  blank  page  farther  on  in  the  book. 

The  size  of  the  T>ivine  Songs  has  varied  great- 
ly, from  the  little  books  published  by  Rusher 
of  Banbury,  ^yi  by  2%  inches,  to  the  huge 
volume  \o%  by  ^yi  inches,  issued  by  Nisbet 
and  Company,  London.  This  Nisbet  edition  is 
undated,  but  appears  to  have  been  published  be- 
tween 1870  and  1880,  and  is  illustrated  by  such 
eminent  artists  as  W.  Holman  Hunt,  George  Du 
Maurier,  H.  K.  Brown,  Marcus  Stone  and  others. 
The  pictures  were  reproduced  by  the  "New 


The  T)ivine  and  z^^fCoral  So?2gs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Graphotype  Engraving  Process",  apparently  zinc 
etching.  As  early  as  i  8 1  o  selections  from  the 
Divine  Songs  with  illustrations  were  engraved  on 
copper  and  arranged  as  a  broadside  school  piece, 
the  piftures  being  carefully  hand-colored.  These 
''school  pieces"  were  large  sheets,  1 9  by  i  5  inches, 
with  a  border  of  pictures  and  a  blank  space  in 
the  middle  in  which  the  child  wrote  his  **  school 
piece"  or  composition. 

In  1855  an  edition  in  book  form  was  printed 
on  cloth  as  an  aid  to  durability,  while  in  1849 
an  edition  was  issued  with  phonetic  spelling. 
Early  in  the  nineteenth  century  ''The  Beggar's 
Petition"  and  "The  Universal  Prayer"  were 
added  and  carried  through  numerous  editions. 

For  many  years  following  the  first  edition, 
this  little  book  of  songs  was  of  uniform  size, 
carefully  printed,  well  sewed,  and  bound  in  full 
calf.  It  was  a  sturdy  little  volume  and  many 
copies  of  these  early  editions  have  come  down 
to  us  in  excellent  condition. 

A  copy  of  the  eighth  edition,  1 729,  is  cherished 
by  its  owner  for  the  following  inscription  on  the 
fly-leaf,  by  the  hand  of  Dr.  Watts: 

"To  My  Dear  Neece 
Sarah  Brackstone       t   w  " 

This  Sarah  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Watts's  sister 
Sarah,  who  married  a  Brackstone.    Later,  James 

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Brackstone,  a  brother,  to  Sarah  the  daughter, 
was  a  London  printer.  The  fifteenth  edition  of 
the  Divine  Songs,  I739>  was  published  by  R. 
Hett  and  J.  Brackstone,  and  the  sixteenth  edi- 
tion, 1740,  bears  Brackstone's  name  alone,  as 
publisher.  But  alas,  James  proved  a  black  sheep; 
in  a  letter  written  by  Dr.  Watts  in  1746  to  his 
brother  Enoch  Watts,  is  the  sad  record  that 
James  Brackstone  was  ejected  from  the  church 
for  ''damning  and  cursing  in  a  shocking  manner" 
his  uncle  Dr.  Watts,  and  for  declaring  that  he 
would  no  longer  be  a  member  of  his  church. 

This  presentation  copy  evidently  soon  descended 
to  a  younger  member  of  the  family,  as  on  the 
same  fly-leaf  that  bears  the  inscription  by  Dr. 
Watts  is  written  in  a  childish  hand,  *'Bety  Brack- 
stone Her  Book  1730'',  and  on  the  fly-leaf  at 
the  back  of  the  book  appears  **Bety  Brackstone, 
Her  Book,  God  Give  Grace  therein  to  Look, 
but  wen  the  bel  be  gins  to  tole.  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  reseive  her  Sole.     A  Men.'' 

In  the  ''English  Primer"  published  by  Mosley, 
Derby  and  London,  about  1825,  is  printed  the 
only  rhyme  diredled  to  these  songs,  which  I  have 
discovered.     It  is  as  follows: 

"What  sweet-er  book  to  me  be-longs 
Than  Dr.  Watts's  book  of  Songs? 
O!  I  would  learn  them  all  the  day, 
I'm  sure  I  love  them  more  than  play. 

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•'When  I'm  grown  up, — yes,  quite  in  age, 
Still  I  shall  love  his  plea-sing  page ; 
Still  I  shall  love  the  songs  I  sung, 
That  taught  me  good  when  I  was  young." 

These  verses,  with  a  wood-cut  above,  occupy 
the  whole  of  page  29.  The  illustration  is  of  a 
prig  of  a  boy  in  chimney-pot  hat,  leaning  against 
a  sun-dial  in  a  garden.  In  the  boy's  hands  is  the 
precious  volume  which  he  is  studiously  perusing. 

A  comparison  of  the  Divine  Songs  with  other 
portions  of  Dr.  Watts's  writings  reveals  in  many 
instances  a  correspondence  in  subject-matter. 
The  thought  of  Song  XVIII,  ''Against  scoffing 
and  calling  names'',  is  used  as  part  of  one  of  his 
sermons;  and  Song  XXII,  ''Against  pride  in 
clothes",  appears  in  a  slightly  different  dress  in 
another  sermon.  Song  XXV,  beginning  "My 
God  who  makes  the  sun  to  know",  is  a  simpli- 
fied rendering  of  one  of  the  hymns  in  his  larger 
hymn  book. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  T>ivine  and 
Moral  Songs  WQVQ  not  composed  during  Dr. Watts's 
youth,  but  after  he  had  arrived  at  middle  life,  a 
bachelor,  a  student  and  an  invalid.  It  would  not 
have  been  surprising  if  he  had  at  that  time  lost 
interest  in  children,  even  if  he  did  not  find  their 
company  a  burden.  But  his  heart  kept  its  youth- 
fulness,  as  the  sweetness  and  simplicity  of  many 

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of  these  songs  will  testify,  in  spite  of  the  rigid 
theology  of  others  of  them.  And  so  his  Michael- 
mas summer  brought  up  again  the  blossoms  of 
spring  and  wove  therefrom  a  fragrant  garland. 

One  appreciative  biographer,  referring  to  the 
tender  sentiments  of  the  Cradle  Hymn,  writes: 
***Hush,  my  dear,  lie  still  and  slumber',  was 
written  not  by  a  young  and  loving  mother  bend- 
ing over  her  baby  whom  she  all  but  stifles  with 
kindness  and  kisses,  but  by  a  little  weazened  re- 
tired bachelor,  whose  heart,  however,  was  as 
warm,  whose  ways  were  as  gentle  as  those  of  the 
happiest  and  fondest  mother/* 

The  T>ivine  and  Moral  Songs  was  not  by  any 
means  the  only  book  for  children  written  by  Dr. 
Watts.  He  was  the  author  of  several  little  cate- 
chisms, graded  from  one  for  the  smallest  infants 
to  others  for  older  children.  In  1720  he  pub- 
lished "The  Art  of  Reading  and  Writing  English'' 
and  he  also  in  1725  wrote  for  the  perusal  of 
their  elders,  **A  Discourse  on  the  Education  of 
Children  and  Youth";  while  in  1728  was  issued 
his  "Prayers  Composed  For  the  Use  and  Imi- 
tation of  Children,  Suited  to  their  different  Ages 
and  their  various  Occasions." 

Editions  of  the  Divine  Songs  appeared  in  Dutch 
and  Welsh  and  one  was  printed  in  India  in 
English. 

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The  largest  colleftion  in  a  public  library  is  that 
in  the  British  Museum  where  there  are  eighty- 
seven  specimens,  the  earliest  being  a  copy  of  the 
ninth  edition,  dated  1728.  The  Bodleian  Li- 
brary at  Oxford  has  examples  of  thirty-three  edi- 
tions while  in  this  country  the  Boston  Public 
Library  and  the  American  Antiquarian  Society 
of  Worcester,  Mass.,  each  has  a  dozen,  and  the 
library  of  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York  nearly  as  many. 

And  so  may  this  little  book  of  appreciation 
renew,  at  least  in  a  few  hearts,  the  love  and 
memory  of  those  dear,  quaint  and  sometimes 
frightful  songs  that  contributed  so  much  of  enter- 
tainment and  joy  to  the  lives  of  nearly  two  cen- 
turies of  English-speaking  children  both  in  the 
old  world  and  the  new. 

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'bibliographical  O^otes  and 
cQists  of  editions 


bibliographical  D^tes 

Although  for  several  generations  last  past,  the 
little  book  which  we  are  considering  has  been 
known  as  the  TDivine  and  Moral  Songs,  it  did  not 
always  bear  this  full  title.  Throughout  the  first 
seventy-five  years  of  its  existence  it  was  known 
simply  as  the  ''Divine  Songs'',  in  spite  of  the 
fad:  that  during  all  that  time  the  book  contained 
"a  slight  specimen  of  Moral  Songs",  from  two 
in  the  earlier  editions  to  the  full  complement  of 
seven  later.  I  have  seen  no  copies  of  the  13th, 
1 4th  or  I  5th  editions,  but  the  1 6th  edition  ( 1 740) 
has  the  title  extended  by  the  following  words: 
''With  some  additional  composures",  that  being 
the  first  title-page  reference  to  the  ^JWoral  Songs 
which  I  have  found.  No  copy,  issued  by  the  reg- 
ular publishers,  so  far  as  I  have  discovered,  ever 
bore  the  words  "and  Moral  Songs".  The  first 
occurrence  of  the  z3)(Coral  Songs  in  the  title,  which 
I  find,  is  in  an  edition  issued  in  London  in  1785, 
under  the  name  of  "Dr.  Watts's  Hymns  and 
Moral  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children  Revised  and 

Altered By  a  Lady."   It  is  not  until  1 794  that 

I  find  the  now  well-known  title  of  Divine  and 
Moral  Songs.  The  twenty-seventh  edition  ( 1 795) 
is  the  last  one  which  I  find  bearing  the  number 
of  the  edition,  although  the  book  continued  to 

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be  published  by  the  same  people  or  their  succes- 
sors at  least  until  1 8  2 1 . 

From  1785  numerous  editions  appeared  bearing 
the  names  of  other  publishers  and  **  Printed  by- 
permission  of  the  Proprietors/'  The  first  edition 
emanating  in  Great  Britain  outside  of  London, 
which  I  have  found,  was  printed  in  Welsh  at 
Caerfyrddin  in  1771,  and  in  1776  an  edition  was 
published  from  Salisbury  in  English.  A  few  Dutch 
items  have  been  included  in  the  British  list. 

Substantially  all  of  the  editions  which  have 
come  to  my  attention  have  on  their  title-pages 
the  quotation  from  Matt,  xxi,  16,  ''Out  of  the 
mouth  of  babes,  etc.'',  but  in  the  following  list 
of  editions  that  quotation  is  indicated  in  the  in- 
terest of  brevity,  except  in  the  first  edition,  by 
a  few  dashes  after  the  author's  name.  Where  not 
so  indicated,  it  is  not  necessarily  to  be  inferred 
that  it  does  not  so  appear,  but  only  that  the  writer 
has  been  unable  to  verify  that  appearance. 

A  date  followed  by  a  question-mark  in  pa- 
rentheses indicates  that  the  date  is  doubtful  or 
approximate. 

In  the  following  list  of  editions  various  refer- 
ences are  abbreviated  as  follows: 

A. A.  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester,  Mass. 

B.  Private  colle6lion. 

B.A.  Boston  Athenaeum. 

B.M.  Library  of  the  British  Museum. 

B.H.  Bates  Hall  Public  Library,  Boston,  Mass. 

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Bod.     Bodleian  Library,  Oxford. 

B.P.     Brooklyn  Public  Library,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Bos.      Boston  Public  Library. 

Bro.     Brown  University  Library,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Bry.     Bryson  Library,  Teachers  College,  New  York. 

Conn.  Conne6licut  Historical  Society,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Esx.     Essex  Museum,  Salem,  Mass. 

Evans.    American  Bibliography  by  Chas.  Evans,  1903. 

Gen.     Library  General  Theological  Seminary,  New  York. 

Har.     Library  of  Havard  University,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Hild.  The  Issues  of  the  Press  in  Pennsylvania  by  Chas. 
R.  Hildeburn,  1885. 

L.C.     Library  of  Congress,  Washington,  D.  C. 

L.I.       Long  Island  Historical  Society,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Lown.  The  Bibliographer's  Manual  of  English  Literature 
by  William  Thomas  Lowndes,  London,  1869. 

New.    Newberry  Library,  Chicago,  111. 

Nich.  Bibliography  of  Worcester  (Mass.)  by  Chas.  L. 
Nichols,   1899. 

N.L.    Free  Public  Library,  Newark,  N.  J. 

N.L.I.    National  Library  of  Ireland,  Dublin. 

NR.  indicates  that  no  record  of  a  copy  has  been  found 
by  the  compiler. 

N.  V.    New  York  Public  Library. 

N.  Y.His.   New  York  Historical  Society,  New  York  City. 

N.  Y.  S.   New  York  State  Libraiy,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

O.P.    Private  colle6lion. 

Penn.His.    Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

P.L.    Peabody  Library,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Peq.    Pequot  Library,  Southport,  Conn. 

6".       Author's  colle6lion. 

Trum.  List  of  Books  printed  in  Connecticut,  1709- 1800, 
by  James  Hammond  Trumbull,  Acorn  Club,  Hartford,  1904. 

U.  T.    Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York. 

Wat.    Watkinson  Library,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Yale.    Library  of  Yale  University,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

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FRONTISPIECE. 


Lord,  how  delightful  His  to  see 

A  whole  Assembly  worship  thee ' 

At  once  they  sing,  at  once  they  pray; 

They  hear  of  Heav'n,  and  leanx  the  Way. 


"The  British  Editions 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Lan-  |  guage  for 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts.  |  Out  of  the  Mouth 
of  Babes  and  Sucklings  thou  hast  perfected  |  Praise.  Matt. 
XXI :  1 6.  I  London:  |  Printed  for  M.  Lawrence  at  the  An- 
gel I  in  the  Poultry.  1715.  |  pp.  72.  5^x3^;  Full 
leather.  Copy  sold  at  Sotheby's,  London,  July  1902,  for 
;^I55.  Now  in  the  Pierpont  Morgan  Library,  New  York. 
Another  copy  was  sold  at  Sotheby's,  March  1907,  iox  £^^. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  2nd  edition.  1716.  Only  one  copy 
known. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  3rd  edition.  Printed  by  R.  Ford  at 
the  Angel  in  the  Poultry.  17 19.  Copy  sold  at  Sotheby's, 
April  191 1.  Mor.  ex.  £1-^.  Third  edition  advertised  at 
the  back  of  The  Psalms  of  David,  etc.,  by  I.  Watts.  3rd 
ed.     London,  John  Clark  and  Rich.     Ford,     m.dcc.xxii. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  \J?>q, 
of  Children.  London:  R.  Ford.  1720.  4th  edition.  Calf 
12°.    Copy  offered  by  Maggs  Bros.,  London,  1909,  £/\-\o. 

Divine  Songs.  Edited  by  I.  Cobbin,  London,  1720.  12°. 
Lown. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.     5  th  edition.     NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.     6th  edition.     NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  7th  edition.  I726(?).  Advertised  in 
An  Essay  Toward  the  Encouragement  of  Charity  Schools, 
by  I.  Watts,  London  :  John  Clark  and  Richard  Hett    1728. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  easy  language,  for  the 
Use    of  I  Children.    |   By    I.    Watts.  |   ^^  \  The    Eighth 

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Edition.  |  London:  Printed  for  Richard  Ford,  at  the 
An-  I  gel  in  the  Poultry,  near  Stocks-Market,  1727.  |  pp. 
xx+52,  5^x314^,  full  calf.     5. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  9th  edition.  London:  1728.  12°.  B.M. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  loth  edition.  London:  R.  Ford,  near 
Stocks-Market.  1729.  Copy  sold  at  Sotheran's,  April  1890, 
£\-2\  at  Christie's,  June  1898,  Mor.  ex.  g.  e.,  £i-Z\  at 
Sotheby's,  Feb.  1900,  £\-\6\  offered  by  Bull  and  Auvache, 
London,  ^2-12-6. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.    nth  edition,  173 1.     NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  1 2th  edition  (?)  London  :  R.  Ford. 
1733-  8°-  Copy  sold  at  Sotheby's,  June  1891.  Mor.  ex., 
^3-7-6.  Copy  sold  in  Hoe  Collection,  N.  Y.,  April  191 1, 
Lev.  mor.  g.  e.,  ;^  15.00. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.     13th  edition,  1735  (?).     NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.     14th  edition,  1737  (?).     NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  15th  edition,  1739  (?).  Fifteenth  edi- 
tion advertised  at  the  back  of  The  Art  of  Reading  and 
Writing  EngHsh,  6th  ed.  London,  1740,  published  by  R. 
Hett  and  J.  Brackstone  at  the  Bible  and  Crown  in  the 
Poultry. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  i6th  edition,  with  some  additional 
composures  (a  Slight  Specimen  of  Moral  Songs).  London: 
J.  Brackstone,  1740.  Small  12  mo.  calf  Copy  offered  by 
Bull  and  Auvache,  London,  1905.     15/-. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  17th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  i8th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  19th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  20th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  The  twenty-first  edition  with  some 
additional  composures,  1752.  Copy  sold  at  Hodgson's, 
Feb.  1905,  mor.  ex.  g.  e.,  8°,  ;£^2-2. 

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Works  of  Isaac  Watts.  Edited  by  D.  Jennings  and  P. 
Doddridge.  London:  1753.  6  vols.  4°.  Vol.  4  contains  the 
Divine  Songs,  for  the  use  of  Children.     B.A. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.  22nd  edition.  NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.  23nd  edition.  NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.     24th  edition.     NR. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language,  |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^^  \  The 
Twenty-fifth  Edition.  |  London :  |  Printed  for  T.  Longman, 
F.  Buckland,  |  and  W.  Fenner,  in  Paternoster-row;  ]  J. 
Waugh,  in  Lombarb-street;  E.  Dilly,  in  the  Poultry;  and  T. 
Field,  in  Cheap-  [  side.  m,dcc,lxi.  |  pp.  xii4-6o,  5^x3^^, 
full  calf     George  II  license  facing  title.     S. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.     26th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language,  |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^^  \  The 
Twenty-seventh  Edition.  |  London:  |  Printed  for  J.  Long- 
man ;  and  J.  Buck-  |  land,  in  Pater-noster-row ;  J,  Waugh, 
I  in  Lombard-Street;  E.  and  C.  Dilly,  in  the  |  Poultry;  and 
T.  Field,  in  Cheapside.  |  m.dcc.lxv.  |  pp.  x  +  60,  5>^x3^, 
full  calf     5. 

I.  Watts'  Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language 
for  the  Use  of  Children.  London  (176-),  18°,  Dutch  boards. 
Quaint  cuts.    Offered  by  Poynder,  Reading,  1910,  15/-. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  for  the 
Use  of  I  Children  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |   -^^   \  London:  | 
Printed  for  H.  Woodfall;  J.  Buckland;  |  J.  and  F.  Riving- 
ton;  T.  Longman;  |  W.  Fenner;  T.  Field  and  |  E.  and  C. 
Dilly.  I  M.DCC.LXix.    pp.  xii-}-58,    5^x3^.    5. 

Caniadan  Dwyfol  (Divine  Songs)  Caerfyrddin,  1771.  pp. 
45,  12°,  in  Welsh.     B.M. 

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Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  Use 
of  Children.  London:  Printed  for  J.  Buckland;  J.  and  F. 
Rivington,  etc.  1772.  pp.  60,  5^x31^,  George  II  Hcense 
facing  title.     Bry. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted    in  |  Easy    Language  |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^u^  \  Lon- 
don :  I  Printed  for  J.  Buckland ;  J.  and  F.  Rivington ;  |  T. 
Longman ;  W.  Fenner;  T.  Field ;  and  |  E.  and  C.  Dilly.  | 
MDCCLXXiii.  I  pp.  xii-f-  58,  6x314,  boards.     5. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  Use 
of  Children.  London:  J.  Buckland.  1774.  pp.  xii+sS, 
8°.     B.M, 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For 
the  Use  of  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.  D.  |  London :  J. 
Buckland ;  J.  and  F.  Rivington,  etc.  mdcclxxv.  George  II 
license  facing  title.     B,M.,  N.  V. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  For  the  Use 
of  Children.     Salisbury,  1776.     12°.     B.M. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  For  the  Use 
of  Children.  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  London:  Printed  in  the 
year  1776.  12°.  No  printer's  or  publisher's  name.  Offered 
by  Murray's,  Leicester,  1914,  ;^2-io. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^^  \  Lon- 
don: I  Printed  for  J.  Buckland;  J.F.  and  C.  Riving-  |  ton; 
T.  Longman ;  W.  Fenner ;  T.  Field ;  |  and  E.  and  C.  Dilly. 
I  MDCCLXxvii.  I  pp.  xii  +  60,  5f  x33^.    B.M.,  S. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted    in  |  Easy    Language  |  For 

the  Use  of  |  Children  |  with  Additions  |  by  I.  Watts,  D.D. 

I  London  :  |  Printed,    and   sold    by   all   the    Booksellers 

in  I  Town  and  Country.  |  mdcclxxix.  |  pp.  58,  5>^  x  3^, 

Dutch  boards,  half  sheep.    5". 

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Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  oor.^  \  Lon- 
don :  I  Printed  for  J.  Buckland ;  J.  F.  and  C.  Rivington ;  | 
T.  Longman  ;  W.  Fenner;  T.  Field;  |  and  C.  Dilly.  |  mdcc- 
Lxxx.  I  pp.  xii-(-58,  5^x31^,  boards.  George  II  license 
facing  title.     B.M.,  S. 

Spiritual  Lessons  for  Children  to  read,  etc.  Chiefly  se- 
lected from  the  Divine  Songs  of  Dr.  Watts.  1780  (?). 
32°.     B.M. 

Horae  Lyricae  |  Poems  |  Chiefly  of  the  Lyric  Kind,  |  etc. 
By  I.  Watts.  Pages  323-370  contain  the  Divine  Songs. 
6x3^.     No  publisher,  place  or  date.     1780  (?).     S. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted    in  |  Easy   Language  |  For 
the  use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,   D.  D.  |  ^^^  \  Lon- 
don: I  Printed  and  sold  by  T.  Moore,  Pater-Noster  Row  | 
1782.  I  pp.  60,  5x3^. 

The  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  in  seven 
volumes  |  with  the  life  of  the  Author.  |  Vol.  VII  |  Edin- 
burgh:  I  At  the  Apollo  Press,  by  the  Martins  |  Anno  1782. 

Pages  42-84  contain  the  Divine  Songs.    5x3.    Har. 


Dr.  Watts' s  Hymns  and  Moral  Songs  for  the  use  of  Chil- 
dren. Revised  and  Altered,  etc.  By  a  Lady.  London : 
Printed  by  permission,  etc.  1785  (?).  First  edition,  NR. 
See  2nd  ed.,  1787;  3rd  ed.,  1791. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for  the  use  of 
Children.    S.  Harward,  Glocestcr,  1785.    pp.  xii  +  58.    12°. 
B.M. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children,  Coventry,  1787  (?), 
12°.     Bod. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For 
the  use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |   ^^^^  \  Lon- 

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The  T>ivine  and  <:3)(Coral  So?igs  of  Isaac  Watts 

don :  J.  Buckland ;  J.  F.  |  and  C.  Rivington ;  T.  Longman ; 
T.   Field;  |  and   C.   Dilly.   |  mdcclxxxvii.   |  pp.   xii  +  6o, 

5^x314.     5. 

Dr.  Watts' s  |  Hymns  |  and  |  Moral  Songs  |  for  the  use 
of  I  Children,  |  Revised  and  Altered.  |  To  which  are  added, 
Prayers  |  for  the  use  of  |  Children.  |  By  a  Lady.  |  The 
Second  Edition.  |  Train  up  a  child  in  the  way,  etc.  | 
London :  |  Printed  by  permission  of  the  Proprietors,  |  for 
J.  Johnson,  No.  72,  St.  Paul's  |  Church-yard,  mdcclxxxvii. 
I  pp.  xii  +  70,  5^x3^8.     ^. 

Divine  Songs  for  Children,  1788.  Comment  on  Watts' 
Divine  Songs  by  Mrs.  Trimmer.  1789.  12°.  Copy  in  old 
Eng.  Mor.  Gold  tooled,  G.  E.  With  portrait  added,  sold 
at  Sotheby's,  May  1892,  £\. 

Divine  |  Songs,  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language,  |  for 
the  use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^^^^  |  Tam- 
worth:  |  Printed  and  sold  by  B.  Shelton.  |  Price  Six-Pence. 
MDCCLXXxix.  I  pp.  64,  7^x31^,  marbled  boards,  half 
leather.     6*. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  use 
of  Children.  To  which  is  added  Poems,  instructive  and 
entertaining,  etc.    Kidderminster:   1790  (?).    12°.    B.M. 

Dr.  Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  children.  Re- 
vised and  altered  so  as  to  render  them  of  general  use.  To 
which  are  added  a  short  Catechism  and  Prayers.  London. 
J.  Johnson.  No.  72,  St.  Paul's  Church-yard.  1790  (?).  ist 
ed.    NR.    See  2nd  ed.  1792  (?) ;  3rd  ed.  1794;  4th  ed.  1803. 

Dr.  Watts's  Divine  Songs,  |  set  to  Music  in  an  |  Easy  and 
Familiar  Stile  |  for  one,  two,  three,  &  four  voices,  |  by  | 
Dr.     Jackson,  |  Opr.     1st  |   uy^un  \   London.      Printed    by 
Muzio,  Clementi  &  Co.  |  No  26,  Cheapside  and  Tottenham 
Court  Road  |  where  may  be  had  |  ''Ponder  my  Words," 

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an  Anthem  and  three  |  canons  for  three  Voices  composed 
for  the  use  |  of  Country  Churches.  |  1790  (?).  Engraved 
title-page.     New. 

Dr.  Watts's  Divine  Songs,  |  set  to  Music  in  an  |  Easy  and 
familiar  Stile  |  for  one,  two,  three,  &  four  voices  |  by  Dr. 
Jackson  |  Opr.  ist  |  London:  Printed  for  the  Author, 
No.  40,  I  great  Prescot  Street  Goodmans  Fields  |  where 
may  be  had  |  ''Ponder  my  Words"  an  Anthem  and  three  | 
Canons  for  three  Voices  composed  for  the  use  |  of  Country 
Churches.  Price  2s.  |  1790  (?).  pp.  ivH-44,  10/^x7,  mar- 
bled paper  covers.     Engraved  throughout.     vS*. 

Divine   songs  attempted  in   Easy  Language  for  the  use 
of  Children.     Gainsborough:  1790  (?).     12°.    B.M. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for  the  use  of 
Children.  London :  Printed  for  J.  Buckland;  J.  F.  and  C. 
Rivington ;  T.  Longman;  T.  Field;  and  C.  Dilly.  1790. 
12°.     B.M.,   Yale. 


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The  T>ivine  and  zS^Coral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for  the  use  of 
Children.  19th  edition.  Belfast:  Printed  by  W.  Magee. 
M,DCC,xci.     pp.  vi  +  41.     Small  8°.     Bos. 

Dr.  Watts'  Hymns  and  Moral  Songs  for  the  use  of  Chil- 
dren;  Revised  and  Altered  by  a  Lady  (E.Y.):  to  which 
are  added  Prayers.  .  .  .  Third  edition.  London,  1791.  12°. 
B.M. 

Divine  |  Songs  |   Attempted  in   j  Easy  Language   |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |   u^ur.  \  Der- 
by: I  John  Drewry  |  m,dcc,xcii.  |  Price  Six-pence,  bound. 
I  pp.  72,  6^x3^,  boards,  half  leather.     Bod.,  S. 

Dr.  Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Revised 
and  altered  so  as  to  render  them  of  general  use.  To  which 
are  added,  etc.   London  :  J.  Johnson  1792  (?).   2nd  ed.   NR. 

Dr.  Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children  :  Re- 
vised and  Altered  so  as  to  render  them  of  general  use.  To 
which  are  added  a  short  Catechism  and  Prayers.  Third 
Edition.  1794.  London:  Printed  by  permission  of  the 
Proprietors.  For  J.  Johnson.  No.  72,  St.  Paul's  Church- 
yard Sq.  18°  calf,  with  a  fine  series  of  wood-cuts.  Offered 
by  Burman,  Alnwick,  Aug.  19 14,  ;^2. 10. 

Poetical  works  of  Isaac  Watts,  to  which  is  prefixed  the 
Hfe  of  the  author  (by  R.  Anderson)  Edinburgh:  1794.  8°; 
contains  the  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.     P.L. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  |  for  the 
use  of  I  children  |  by  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  m?^=^  |  London:  | 
Printed  for  J.  Longman,  C.  Dilly,  and  F.  and  C.  Rivington. 
MDCCXcvi.  pp.  xii-|-6o.  Preliminary  leaf  bears  notice  of 
purchase  of  copyrights  by  Buckland,  Waugh,  etc.  Copy 
offered  by  Gorfin,  London,  Sept.  1 9 14,  T j^i. 

Watts' s  Hymns  for  Children,  complete  with  prayers. 
1796  (?).   Price  i>^d,  or  6/-  per  100.     Offered  on  the  last 

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leaf  of  The  Shepherd  of  Salisbury  Plain,     Marshall,  Lon- 
don, January  1796.   Cheap  Repository  and  S.  Hazard,  Bath. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  Use 
of  Children.     London,  1799.    12°.     B.M. 

Divine  Songs.  ...  To  which  are  added  the  Principles  of 
the  Christian  Religion  ...  by  Philip  Doddridge,  also  a  col- 
lection of  instructive  and  entertaining  poems.  Kiddermin- 
ster.   i8oo(?).    12°.     B.M. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs.  Alnwick  and  Glasgow,  1800  (?). 
Woodcuts.     Offered  by  Tregaskis,  London,  July  1 91 6. 


Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For  the 
Use  of  I  Children  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  Adorned  with 
Thirty-seven  elegant  Cuts  |  To  which  is  added  |  The  Beg- 
gar's Petition  |  and  the  |  Universal  Prayer.  |  London,  Gow- 
er  &  Pennell,  Kidderminster.  |  1800  (?).  pp.  71,  5^x3^, 
half  leather.    5. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language.  Society  for 
Promoting  Christian  Knowledge.  London.  1800.  12°. 
B.M. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For  the 
I  Use  of  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  -^-^  \  To  which 
are  added,  1  The  Beggar's  Petition,  Prayers,  etc.  |  WeUing- 
ton:  I  Printed  and  sold  by  J.  Bishop.  |  Sold  also  by  all 
Booksellers  in  Town  and  Country.  |  Price  six  pence.  | 
i8oo(?).  pp.  48,  6^x3^.  Frontispiece  of  church  interior 
with  verse  beneath.  Paper  covers.  Title  in  oval  wreath  on 
front  cover.     S. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language.  Coventry, 
1800  (?).    12°.     B.M. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language.  Bath, 
1800  (?).     12°.     B.M. 


T^he  T>ivme  and  ^y^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Divine  I  Songs  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  |  For  the 
use  of  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  s<?^ooo  |  Gainsborough 
I  Printed  by  H.  Mosley,  Market  Place.  |  Price  six  pence.  | 
1 80 1  (?).  pp.  72,  5)^x2^,  Dutch  boards,  gilt.  Frontispiece 
and  numerous  cuts  in  text.  Cuts  signed  "W.G."  (William 
Green?);  that  on  page  23  signed  '*W.G.  Hull  1801."    5. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for  the  use  of 
Children.  Mission  Press :  Serampore.  1801.  pp.  88,  16°. 
B.M. 

Divine  Songs  for  Children  by  Isaac  Watts.    York  :  Edw. 
Peck.     Lower  Ousegate.     1802  (?).    Offered  on  the  last  leaf 
of  The  Magic   Lantern,   York,    Edw.   Peck,   Lower  Ouse- 
gate.    1802. 

The  I  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  in  seven 
volumes.  London  :  Apollo  Press.  George  Cawthorn.  No. 
132,  Strand.  1802.  5x3.  Vol.  VII,  pp.  42-84,  contains  the 
Divine  Songs.     N.  V. 

Divine  Songs  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.  D.  | 
London.  |  Printed    and   Sold    by    Darton    and    Harvey,  | 
Grace    Church   Street  |  1802.  |  Price  six  pence.  |  pp.   60, 
4)^x31^,   marbled    paper.     Eighteen  half  page  copper- 
plate illustrations  in  the  text.     N.  V. 

Dr.  Watts' s  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  ...  To 
which  are  added  a  short  Catechism  and  Prayers.  Fourth 
edition.   London:  J.  Johnson.    1803.  pp.  ix  +  96,  1 2°.  B.M. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  York,  1804. 
Dutch  boards.  Wood-cuts.  Copy  sold  at  Sotheby's,  Jan. 
II,  1899. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  for  the 
use  of  I  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^^  \  London: 
Printed  for  F.  &  C.  Rivington ;  J.  Scatcherd ;  [  Longman, 
Hurst,  Rees  and  Orme  ;  |  and  G.  Mowman ;  |  By  Bye  and 

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Low,  St.  John's  Square.  Clerkenwell.  |  1805.  |  pp.  75, 
5^  X  3  J^.  Item  No.  5  of  Vol.  XII  of  a  set  issued  by  the 
Society  for  promoting  Christian  Knowledge.     B.M.,  Gen. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  |  in  Easy  Language  |  For  | 
The  Use  |  of  |  Children  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^-^  \  Orna- 
mented with  cuts.  I  A  new  edition.  |  London :  |  Printed  for 
Houlston  and  Son,  |  65,  Paternoster  Row,  and  at  Wellington, 
Salop.  I  Price  six  pence.  |  1805  (?).  pp.  72,  5^x3,  boards. 
Frontispiece  of  the  interior  of  a  church  ;  cut  at  the  head  of 
each  song.     Front  cover  bears  title  in  decorative  border. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs,  1805  (?),  32°,  without  cuts,  price  2d; 
advertised  on  rear  cover  of  above  item. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children.  ...  By  Issac  Watts,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Foxton  and  other  eminent  divines.  Dublin :  J.  Gough. 
1st  ed.   NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children,  Dublin,  2nd  edition.  NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children,  Dublin,  3rd  edition.  NR. 

Sele(5l  Songs  for  Children,  Dublin,  4th  edition.  NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children,  Dublin,  5th  edition.  NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children,  Dublin,  6th  edition.  NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children,  DubHn,  7th  edition.  NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children,  Dublin,  8th  edition.  NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children,  Dublin,  9th  edition.  NR. 

Sele6l  Songs  for  Children  ...  By  Isaac  Watts,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Foxton  and  other  eminent  divines.  .  .  .  Tenth  edition 
.  .  .  enlarged.  Dublin:  J.  Gough.  1806.  pp.  108.  12°. 
B.M.     See  12th  ed.  18 10. 

The  I  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  Collated 

by  Thos.  Park,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    London:  Whittingham.    1807. 

Vol.  II,  pp.  169-21 1,  contains  "Songs  |  Divine  and  Moral 

I  Book  IV"  I  5x3.    Copperplate  frontispiece  by  Stothard, 

"Hush,  my  dear,  lie  still  and  slumber."     A^.  Y. 

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Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  Use 
of  Children.  Society  for  promoting  Christian  Knowledge. 
Vol.  XII.     1807.     12^.     B.M. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For  the 
Use  of  I  Children  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ur>^  \  Printed  for 
F.  and  C.  Rivington ;  J.  Scatcherd  |  and  Letterman ;  Long- 
man, Hurst,  Rees  and  |  Orme ;  and  J.  Mowman ;  |  By  Law 
and  Gilbert,  St.  John's  Square,  Clerkenwell.  |  1808.  |  pp. 
72,  5^x  3^.     ^. 

Dr.  Watts's  Divine  Songs,  in  a  small  size  and  type.  To 
which  is  added.  The  Principles  of  the  Christian  ReHgion, 
Doddridge.  6d.  1808  (?).  Offered  on  back  leaf  of  previous 
item. 

Songs  Divine  and  Moral.  A  new  edition  revised  by  J. 
Owen.     London,  1809.     16°.     B.M. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs  for  the  Use  of  Children,  etc.  Rich- 
mond:  T.  Bowman.     1810  (?).     pp.  35.     B.M. 

Selefl  songs  for  Children.  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Foxton  and  other  eminent  Divines.  Dublin :  John 
Gough.    nth  ed.     N.R. 

Selefl  I  Songs  |  for  |  Children  |  in  three  parts  |  .  .  .  .  | 
By  I.  Watts,  D.D.,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Fox-  |  ton,  and  other 
eminent  Divines.  |  .  .  .  .  |  The  Twelfth  Edition  |  Corredled 
and  Enlarged.  |  Dublin :  Printed  by  John  Gough,  No.  20, 
Meath-Street.  |  18 10  |  Price  8d,  half  bound.  |  pp.  108, 
S}i^3}i'     Plalf  sheep.     5. 

Watts's  Divine  Songs.  Published  May  24,  18 lO,  by  R. 
Harrild,  20,  Great  Eastcheap.  Broadside  19x15  (School 
piece),  eight  copperplate  illustrations,  carefully  hand- 
colored.     S. 

Divine  Songs.  London,  18 10.  Post  8°.  Copy  sold  in 
Daly  sale,  Amer.  Art  Galleries,  March  1900,  ^5.50.  Mor. 
g.  e.,  portrait  by  Bartolozzi  inserted. 

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Divine  Songs,  attempted  irt  Easy  Language  for  the  Use 
of  Children.  Adorned  with  appropriate  wood-cuts  by  T. 
Bewick.  York:  Thomas  Wilson  and  Son,  1810.  pp.  64. 
5x2^.     Bry, 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  York:  R.  Burdikin.  12°,  illus- 
trated.   i8io(?).   Offered  by  Tregaskis,  London,  Aug.  191 2. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs  for  Children.  Edinburgh:  Oliver 
and  Boyd.  Tweeddale  Court.  With  neat  embellishments. 
6^.  1810  (?).  pp.  36,  5^  x3^.  Offered  at  back  of  "A 
Budget  of  Juvenile  Stories  for  Children.  Edinburgh.  Oli- 
ver and  Boyd. 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral    Songs  |  In  Easy  &  Pleasing  Lan- 
guage I  For  the  Instru6lion  of  Children  |  By  Isaac  Watts, 
D.D.  I  Illustrated  with  forty  fine  cuts  |  London:  Edward 
Lacey,  "j^^,  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  |  And  all  booksellers.  | 
i8io(?).     pp.  70,  5^^x31^,  boards.     5. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  London  : 
W.  Darton,  18 12.     pp.  70,  12°.     B.M. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  Language  for  the  use  of 
children.  London :  Printed  for  F.  C.  and  J.  Rivington  ;  J. 
Scatcherd  and  Letterman;  Longman,  Hurst,  Rees,  Orme 
and  Brown;  and  J.  Mowman.     18 12.     Yale. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language,  with  ap- 
propriate wood-cuts  by  T.  Bewick  of  New  Castle.  York : 
T.  Wilson.  18 1 2.  12°.  Copy  sold  at  Sotheby's,  February 
1906,  ;^2-2.     Bod. 

Dr.  Watts' s  |  Hymns  for  Children,  |  Revised  and  Altered, 
I  so  as  to  render  them  of  general  use :  |  To  which  are  now 
added  |  Hymns  |  And    other  religious  poetry  |  For  Chil- 
dren, I  By  Dr.  Doddridge,  &c.  |  A  new  edition.  |  Exeter : 
I  Printed  and  Sold  by  T.  Besley,  |  Sold  also  by  J.  Johnson 
and  Co.,  London;  |  P.  Hedgeland,  Exeter;  Rees  and  Cur- 

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tis,  Plymouth;  and  J.  Belcher,  |  Birmingham.  |  1812.  |  pp. 
52,6^x3^.     5. 

Works  of  Isaac  Watts.  London:  18 12-13.  9  vols.  8°. 
Vol.  9  contains  the  Divine  Songs  for  Children.     B.H. 

Dr.  Watts's  |  Divine  Songs,  |  For  |  Children.  |  Banbury: 
I  Printed  and  Sold  by  J.  G.  Rusher,  |  Bridge-Street.  | 
Price  One  penny.  |  i8i4(?).  pp.  16,  numbered  2-18. 
3/^x2^.  Blue  paper  wrapers.  Frontispiece  on  inside 
front  cover.  Cuts  on  outside  front  and  back  covers.  Copy 
(with  another  Vol.,  Moral  Songs)  sold  at  Bangs,  N.  Y.,  May 
1900,  ;^4.50.    B.M.y  Bos,,  Bod.,  S. 

Dr.  Watts's  |  Moral  Songs,  |  For  |  Children.  |  Banbury: 
I  Printed  and  sold  by  J.  Rusher,  |  Bridge-Street.  |  Price 
One  Penny.  |  i8i4(?).  pp.  16,  numbered  2-18.  3^x2^. 
Gray  paper  wrappers.  Frontispiece  on  inside  front  cover. 
Cuts  on  outside  front  and  back  covers.  vS.  See  note  on 
previous  item. 

Divine  Songs  in  easy  language,  etc.  Glasgow :  J.  Lumsden 
and  Son.    18 14.   pp.  30,  32°.   B,M.,  Bod. 

An  analysis  of  Dr.  Watts's  Hymns  for  Children,   upon 
the    interrogative    or    catechetical    plan.      For  the   use  of 
schools.      Liverpool:  Published  by  H.  Greenough.      18 14. 
Yale. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  With  the  Beg- 
gar's Petition.    London.    Ilminster.    i8i4(?).    24°     B.M. 

Divine  Songs  in  Easy  Language  for  the  Use  of  Children. 
By  I.  Watts.  Edinburgh:  G.  Ross.  18 14  (?).  Offered  by 
Burman,  Alnwick,  Sept.  191 2. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for  Children. 
WelHngton :  Houlston,  18 15  (?),  cuts.  Offered  by  Burman, 
Alnwick,  July  191 2,  2/-. 

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Caniadau  Duwiol  (Divine  >Songs)  Crefyddol :  1 8 1 5  (?). 
In  Welsh.     12°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Lan- 
guage I  For  the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  | 
un-^xn  I  Beverley :  Printed  by  M.  Turner,  |  For  Messrs. 
Crosby  and  Co,,  London  ;  |  G.  Turner,  Hull ;  and  M.  Tur- 
ner, Beverley.  |  181 5.  |  pp.  54,  5^x31^,  half  sheep,  fron- 
tispiece and  cuts  in  text.    5". 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral  Songs,  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  Isaac 
Watts,   D.D.  I  Stereotpye   edition.  |  London:  |  Printed  for 
E.  Cox  and  Son,  |  St.  Thomas's  Street,  Borough.  |  181 5.  | 
pp.  64,  4x214,  full  sheep.     5. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.    London:    18 16.    12°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Derby:  R.Miller.  18 16.  8°. 
Engraving  above  each  song.  Offered  by  Burman,  Alnwick, 
July  1912. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  use 
of  Children.  London  :  Printed  for  F.  C.  and  J.  Rivington. 
18 1 8.      Yale. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  Attempted  |  in  Easy  Lan- 
guage I  For  The  |  Use  of  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  | 
London  :  |  Printed  and  sold  by  J.  Innes,  61,  Wells  St.  | 
Oxford  Street ;  |  and  may  be  had  at  all  booksellers.  |  Price 
Sixpence.  |  1820  (?).    pp.  36,  5^  ^3^4,  frontispiece;  stiff 
paper  covers.     O.P. 

Divine  Songs  for  Children,  Reading:  J.  Rusher.  1820  (?). 
pp.  48,  16°.    B.Jf. 

Divine  Songs  in  easy  language,  for  Children.  London  : 
J.  Evans.    1820  (?).    12°.    B.M. 

Watts's  Divine  Songs.    Glasgow.    1820  (?).    16°.    B.M, 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  Attempted  in  easy  language 
for  the  use  of  Children.  London:  J.  Catnach.  1820  (?). 
pp.  12,    12°.     B.M. 

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Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  .  .  .  With  engravings.  Devizes  : 
J.  Harrison.     1820  (?).     pp.  48,  12°.     B.M. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  Devizes.  1820  (?). 
8°.     Bod. 

A  I  Specimen  |  of  |  Moral    Songs  |  Adapted    to  |  The 
Capacities  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  Chelmsford  : 
I  Printed  and  sold  by  I.  Marsden.  |  Price  one  Penny.  | 
1820  (?).     pp.  16,  4^  x2^,  gray  paper  covers.     vS. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  For  the  |  Use  of  Children. 
I  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  «7»c^  |  London:  |  William  Darton, 
58,  Holborn-Hill.  |  Opposite  Ely  Place.  |  1821.  |  Price  six 
pence.  |  pp.  72,  5^x3^^;  frontispiece  and  numerous 
large  cuts  in  text,  including  a  hanging  to  illustrate  moral 
song  No.  3,  ''The  Thief"    5. 

Divine  &  Moral  |  Songs,  I  in  easy  language.  |  By  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  I  A  New  Edition,  |  Embellished  with  beauti- 
ful engravings,  |  from  new  designs.  |  London  :  |  Printed 
for  Baldwin,  Cradock,  and  Jay,  |  Paternoster  Row.  |  1821. 
I  Price  six-pence.  |  pp.  72,  4^  x  3,  paper  covers.  Frontis- 
piece and  cut  on  title ;  also  36  cuts  in  text. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for  the  use  of 
Children.  London :  Printed  for  F.  C.  and  J.  Rivington. 
1 82 1.     Yale. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  London.  1822  (?). 
8°.    Bod. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  in  Easy  Language  for  the  Use 
of  Children.  R.  Franly.  1823.  12°,  paper  covers.  Folding 
colored  frontispiece  in  six  se6lions.  Copy  sold  at  Sotheby's, 
Feb.  191 1,  £2-^. 

Divine  Songs,  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language,  |  By  I. 
Watts,    D.D.  I  oo^c/»  I  London:  Sold  by  C.  S.  Arnold,  | 
Tavistock-Street,  Covent  Garden.  |  1825.  |  Price  six  pence. 

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I   pp.   72,   5^x3^,  frontispiece   and   cuts  in   text,  stiff 
paper  covers,  border  and  cut  on  cover.     Bod.^  S. 

Divine  Songs  for  children.  Adorned  with  38  elegent 
cuts,  to  which  is  added  the  Beggar's  Petition  and  Universal 
Prayer.  London,  1825.  Small  pott  8°  half  leather.  Copy 
offered  by  Gorfin,  London,  Oft  19 14. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  Epping,  1825  (?). 
8°.     Bod. 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral  Songs  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  I  with  |  Brief  notes  appended  to  each  hymn, 
I  by  I  A  minister  of  the  gospel.  |  Birmingham :  |  Printed 
for  Thomas  Groom,  |  Islington  Row.  |  1825  (?).  pp.  54, 
5^x35^,  stiff  paper  covers.  Title  on  cover  in  mortised 
cut,  apparently  by  Bewick.     Yale,  S. 

Songs,  I  Divine  and  Moral  |  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  To 
which  is  added  |  A  memoir  of  the  Author.  |  Embellished 
with  sixty  engravings  on  wood  |  ^jon^jon  \  London:  |  Published 
by  W.  Simpkin  and  R.  Marshall,  Stationers'  Hall  Court, 
Ludgate  Street;  |  J.  Johnson,  Brook  Street,  Holborn; 
and  sold  by  all  booksellers.  |  1826.  |  pp.  iv-|-vi-fvi-|-88, 
7/^x3^,  boards.  Frontispiece  portrait  and  cut  at  head 
of  each  song.     B.M.^  5. 

Canan  Duwiol  (Divine  Songs)  Llundain ;  1826.  In 
Welsh.     24°.    B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs,  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Lan- 
guage, I  for  the  I  Use  of  Children  :  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  | 
Derby :  |  Printed  for  and  by  |  Thomas  Richardson,  Friar- 
Gate;  I  and  for  |  Hurst,  Chance  and  Co.,  |  65  St.  Paul's 
Church-yard,  London.  |  1827.  |  pp.  70,  5^x3^,  picture 
boards.    Frontispiece  and  small  wood-cuts  in  text.     vS. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  In  |  Easy  Language  |  For 
the  use  of  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  Adorned  with 

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thirty-eight  elegant  cuts.  |  To  which  is  added,  |  The  Beg- 
gar's    Petition,    and    the    Universal    Prayer.   |  London :  | 
Thomas  Tegg,   73,   Cheapside.  |  1828.  |  pp.  72,  5J^x3^, 
boards,  half  leather ;    frontispiece  and  numerous   cuts    in 
text.    5. 

An  Explanation  of  Dr.  Watt's  Hymns  for  Children,  in 
question  and  answer.  By  a  Lady.  (Mrs.  Cockle,  with  the 
text).  London:  First  edition.  NR.  See  3rd  ed.  1829; 
4th  ed.  1836. 

An  Explanation  of  Dr.  Watt's  Hymns  for  Children,  in 
question,  etc.     Second  edition.     NR. 

An  Explanation  of  Dr.  Watt's  Hymns  for  Children,  in 
question  and  answer.  By  a  Lady.  (Mrs.  Cockle,  with  the 
text).     Third  edition :  London.     1829.     8°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.    Derby,  1830  (?).     12°.     B.M. 

Watts's  I  Divine  Songs,  |  attempted  in  |  Easy  Language 
I  For  the  Use  of  Children.  |  John  and  Charles  Mozley.  | 
Derby:  |  Price  One  Penny.  |  1830  (?).    pp.   32,  4^x2^, 
paper  covers,  cut  on  front  cover,  frontispiece,  and  vignette 
on  title.     5. 

Watts's  I  Divine  Songs,  |  attempted  in  |  Easy  Language 

I  For  the  Use  of  Children.  |  London  :  John  and  Charles 

Mozley,  |  6,  Paternoster  Row.  [  Price  One  penny.  |  i830(?). 

pp.  32,  4^/^  x25^,  paper  covers,  cut  on  front  cover,  small 

frontispiece,  and  vignette  on  title.     5. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs.  Offered  on  back  of  "The  English 
Primer"  published  by  John  and  Charles  Mozley,  Derby 
and  Paternoster  Row,  London.  1830  (?);  price  \^  [see 
item  above],  2^  and  6<^  each. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  in  Easy  Language.  Religious 
Tra6l  Society,  London  :  1830  (?).  The  First  Series,  Tra6ls 
etc.   No.  5,  12°.     B.M. 

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Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  London:  1830.  18°  2/0. 
Lown. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  London  :  1830  (?). 
Printed  from  copper  plates.     Bod. 

Divine  Songs,  |  In  |  Easy  Language  |  For  |  Children.  | 
By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  co^^^  |  London:  |  Printed  and  Sold  by 
I  J.  Evans,  |  42,  Long  Lane,  West  Smithfield.  |  Price  six- 
pence. I  1830  (?).  pp.  68,  5^x314,  picture  boards.  Frontis- 
piece and  crude  cuts  in  text.  Vignette  on  title  by  Bewick.   S. 

Songs,  Divine  and  Moral,  For  the  Use  of  Children,  by 
Isaac  Watts.  1832.  12°,  boards.  Illustrated  by  Stothard. 
Lowndes  says  "London  :  Tilt,  fcp.  8°  1832."  Copy  offered 
by  Rollings,  London,  19 10,  2/-. 

Dr.  Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  improved.  With 
an  appendix,  etc.  Newcastle.  1832.  12°.  B.M.,  Bod.  See 
2nd  ed.  1834;  3rd  ed.  1839. 

Dr.  Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  improved.  .  .  .  with 
an  appendix.  By  John  Scott.  The  second  edition,  etc. 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  1834.     12°.     B.M.,  Bod. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  For  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts, 
D.D.  I  London:  |  Religious  Tra6l  Society;  |  Instituted 
1799;  I  Sold  at  the  Depository,  56,  Paternoster  Row;  and 
I  By  the  booksellers.  |  1834.  |  pp.  72,  5J^  x  3)^,  half 
leather.  Vignette  on  title  and  numerous  excellent  wood- 
cuts in  text.     5*. 

Dr.  Watts' s  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Illustrated  by 
Anecdotes  and  Refle(5lions  by  the  Rev.  Ingram  Cobbin. 
London:  Dean  and  Son.  ist  edition.     NR.     See  183.5  W- 

Dr.  Watts's  |  Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  |  for  |  Children.  | 
Illustrated  by  Anecdotes  and  Refle6lions  by  the  Rev.  Ingram 
Cobbin,   M.A.  |  Embellished  with    beautiful  wood-cuts.  | 


T^he  Divine  and<J)(Coral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

New  edition,  |  London :  |  Dean  and    Son,    Ludgate   Hill. 
E.C.  I  1835  (?).  pp.  136,  5  j^  X  3}^,  green  cloth.     Bos.,  S, 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Llundain.  1836.  24°.  In 
Welsh.    B.M. 

An  Explanation  of  Dr.  Watts'  Hymns  for  Children,  in 
question  and  answer.  By  a  Lady.  (Mrs.  Cockle,  with  the 
text).    Fourth  edition.   London:   1836.    12°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  London:  Re- 
ligious Tra6l  Society.  1837,  small  8°,  illustrated,  half  calf. 
Offered  by  Gorfin,  London,  Oct.  19 14. 

Divine  Songs  for  Children.  Edited  by  J.  G.  Pike.  Lon- 
don :  Thomas  Richardson  and  Son,  26,  Paternoster  Row. 
1837  (?)•  Offered  on  back  of  Mavor's  Improved  Spelling 
Book.  London :  Thomas  Richardson  and  Son,  26,  Pater- 
noster Row,  @  6<* ,  3<i ,  2<i ,  and  i*^  each. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  In  **  Hymns, 
OriginalandSeleaed,  by  John  Radcliffe,  1838."    16°.  B.M. 

Dr.  Watts's  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  .  .  .  Improved  ;  with 
a  large  appendix,  by  J.  Scott.  Now  an  almost  entirely  new 
work.  Third  edition,  etc.  Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  1839. 
12°.    Lown.,  B.M.,  Bod. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  London  :  Houlson,  1839.  Fcp 
8°,  plates,  2/6.     Lown. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  new  edition.  To  which  are 
added  prayers,  etc.  London  :  1840  (?).  16°.  Frontispiece 
and  numerous  wood-cuts.       .M.,  S. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  |  For  the 
Use  of  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  c^oo^  |  New  edi- 
tion. I  London :  |  Printed  for  the  |  Society  for  promoting 
Christian  Knowledge  ;  |  Sold  at  the  Depository,  |  Great 
Queen  Street,    Lincoln's  Inn  Fields ;  |  and  by   all    book- 

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sellers.  |  [55]  1840.  |  pp.  68,  5^x31^,  half  leather,  pic- 
ture boards.  Society's  seal  on  title  page.  8  wood-cuts  in 
text.     5. 

Divine  and   Moral  Songs   for  Children.     London :   The 
Religious  Tra6l  Society.    1841.     Illustrated.     Yale. 

March's  |  Library  |  of  Instrudlion  and  Amusement.  | 
Watts' s  I  Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  -9-  |  Price  six- 
pence I  Printed  and  Published  by  J.  March  |  5,  Great  Char- 
lotte Street,  Blackfriars'  Road.  |  1844  (?).  pp.  16,  9j^x6, 
printed  on  one  side  of  leaves  only.  Title  on  outside  front 
cover;  21  carefully  colored  wood-cuts.     5. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.     Set  to  music  by  Mrs.  Brent. 
London;  1846  (?).   Royal  8  °.    ist  ed.  (?).    Bod.    (See  1848. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  |  For  the 
Use  of  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  jor.^yi  |  London: 
I  Printed  for  |  The  Society  for  promoting  Christian  Knowl- 
edge I  Sold  at  the  Depository,  |  Great  Queen  Street, 
Lincoln's  Inn-Fields,  and  4  Royal  Exchange  ;  |  and  by  all 
booksellers.  |  [55]  1847.  I  PP-  7^,  5^^x31^,  red  silk 
boards.  Seal  of  Society  on  title  page.  Many  excellent 
wood-cuts;  some  signed  "Whimper."    5. 

Dr.  Watts'  |  Divine  &  Moral  Songs,  |  Set  to  Music,  | 
And  adapted  expressly  for  the  use  |  of  children,  |  By  |  Mrs. 
Brent.  |  London.  |  Sold  by  Houlston  &  Stoneman.  |  Pater- 
noster Row;  I  &  other  Booksellers.  |  1848.  |  Ent.  Sta. 
Hall.  I  pp.  80,  loj^  X  7.  From  engraved  plates  through- 
out.    Bod.y  Lown.y  S. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  For  |  The  Use  of  Children. 

I  By  I  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  With  thirty  illustrations  |  Drawn 

on  the  wood  by  C.  W.  Cope,  A.R.A.  |  and  |  Engraved  by 

John  Thompson.  |  London  :  |  John  Van  Voorst,  Paternoster 

Row.   I  MDCCCXLViii.  I  pp.  94,    S}4x6}^,  paper  covered 

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boards.  L.p.  uncut.  First  issue  carrying  the  "death  print" 
on  page  28.  Later  issue,  same  date,  had  the  death  print 
replaced  by  the  wood-cut  from  page  74.  First  issue,  B.M. 
Later  issue,  6*. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  For  |  The  Use  of  Children.  | 
By  I  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  [  With  thirty  illustrations  |  Drawn 
on  the  wood  by  C.  W.  Cope,  A.R.A.,  |  and  |  Engraved  by 
John  Thompson.  |  London :  |  John  Van  Voorst,  |  Pater- 
noster Row.  I  MDCCCXLViii.  I  pp.  94  +  4  adv.  8^x5^, 
cloth,  g.e.  Small  paper  edition  of  preceding  item.  B.M.^ 
Bod.,  A.A.,  S. 

Divine    and   Moral  Songs.     London:    1848.    18°,    1/6. 
Lown. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.   London  :  (Bath  printed)  1849. 
16°.    Printed  in  phonetic  chara6lers.     B.M. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.     London:   1849, 
8  °.     Bod. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  For  |  The  Use  of  Children  | 
By  I  Isaac  Watts,   D.D.  |  with  thirty  illustrations  |  Drawn 
on  the  wood  by  C.  W.  Cope,  A.R.A,,  |  and  |  Engraved  by 
John  Thompson.  |  London :  |  John  Van  Voorst,  Paternoster 
Row.  I  M.DCCCL.  I  pp.  94  +  8  of  adv.,  cloth,  8^  ^S}^- 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  |  For  the 
Use  of  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  «?oooo  |  London: 
I  Society  for  Promoting  Christian  Knowledge ;  |  Sold  at 
the  Depositories ;  |  yy,  Great  Queen  Street,  Lincoln's  Inn 
Fields;  |  4,  Royal  Exchange ;  16,  Hanover  Street,  Hanover 
Square;  |  And  by  All  Booksellers.  |  1850  (?).  No.  55.  |  pp. 
72,  S/4^3}i'    Frontispiece  and  numerous  wood-cuts.    S. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.     London:   1852. 
8°.    Bod. 

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Divine  and  Moral  Songs  J  for  |  Children.  |  by  the  |  Rev. 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  Illustrated  by  anecdotes  and  refle6lions, 
I  by  the  |  Rev.  Ingram  Cobbin,  M.A.  |  Embellished  with 
beautiful  wood-cuts.  |  London  :  |  Arthur  Hall,  Virtue  and 
Co.,  I  25,  Paternoster  Row,  |  and  all  booksellers.  |  1852.  | 
pp.  136+18  of  adv.,  5^x31^,  cloth  with  gold  lettering. 
See  1835.     5. 

New  and  revised  edition  of  Dr.  Watts's  Divine  and 
Moral  Songs.  ...  by  J.  G.  C.  Fussell.  London:  1852.  18°. 
B.M. 

Divine  Songs.     London:   i854(?).   32°.     B.M. 

Twenty-eight  Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children. 
Dublin:   1855  (?).  48°.     B.M, 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Low,  London  :  1855.  ^2°, 
printed  on  cloth.    Lown. 

Watts's  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Edinburgh:  1855  W- 
12°     B.M, 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  London:  Birmingham:  1855  (?). 
32°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.     London:  1856.  8°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Warde  and  Locke.  London  : 
1857.    12°.     B.M.,  Lown. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  London:  1857. 
8°.     Bod. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Edinburgh  and  New  York. 
1857.    12°.     B.M. 

Divine    and    Moral  |  Songs.  |  For  |  Children  |  By   the  | 
Rev^  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  London.  |  George  Routledge  & 
Co.,  Farrington  St.  |  i860  (?).    Designed  title  with  vignette 

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The  T>ivine  and  <J)(Coral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

of  Dr.  Watts.    Frontispiece  and  numerous  wood  engravings 
in  text,  all  by  Dalziel.    pp.  96,  6^  x  3  J^.     N.  F.,  5. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Same  as  above  except  printed 
throughout  on  cloth.     5". 

Divine  Songs.     London:   i860  (?).    12°.     B.M. 

Moral  Songs  and  Hymns.  Illustrated  by  ten  beautiful 
coloured  engravings.   (On  cards).  1861  (?).  12°.     B.M. 

Dr.  Watts's  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  F.  Goodchilds' 
Little  Library.     186 1  (?).  8°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Religious  Tra6l  Society. 
London:    1861.    1 2°,  colored  plates.    Lown. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  .  .  .  The  music  composed  and 
adapted  for  Children's  voices.  By  E.  Thorn e.  London : 
1864.    8°.     B.M.,  Bod.    See  1870  (?). 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  for  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts, 
D.D.  I  London:  Religious  Tra6l  Society ;  |  Instituted  1799 
I  Sold  at  the  depository,  56,  Paternoster  Row,  and  65,  St. 
Paul's  Church-yard;  |  and  by  the  Booksellers.  |  1865  (?). 
pp.  72,  5J^x3^,  half  leather.  Illustrated  with  excellent 
wood  engravings,  some  of  the  tailpieces  after  Bewick.    U.  T. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs   |   For  |  Children   |   By  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  I  London:  |  Sampson  Low,  Son,  and  Marston. 
I  1866.  I  pp.  116,  7^x  5J^.    Numerous  wood  engravings 
in  the  text  by  various  artists.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  For  |  Children,  |  By  |  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  I  Illustrated  |  London:  |  George  Routledge  & 
Sons.  I  1866  (?).  pp.  116,  7^x5^,  designed  title  page; 
frontispiece  wood-engraved  portrait  of  Dr.  Watts  by  Scott. 
Wood-cut  illustrations  and  decorations  on  each  page  by 
Scott,  Kennedy,  Allen,  etc.  Probably  from  same  plates  as 
item  above.     Bod.^  S. 

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The  T>ivine  andzy)(toral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Divine  and  Moral  SongSi  Leiden.  1866  (?).  12°.  In 
Dutch.     B.M, 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral  Songs  |  For  |  Children.  |  By  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  I  Illustrated  in  the  |  New  Graphotype  En- 
graving Process.  |  by  W.  Holman  Hunt,  |  W.  Cave  Thomas, 
J.  D.  Watson,  G.  Du  Maurier,  T.  Morten,  C.  Green,  | 
H.  K.  Brown,  Marcus  Stone,  H.  Anelay,  Florence  Claxton, 
I  M.  E.  Edwards,  etc.  etc.  |  Under  the  superintendence  of 
I  H.  Fitzcook.  I  London:  |  James  Nisbet and  Co.,  |  Berners 
Street.  |  1867  (?).  pp.viii+76,  10^x8  J^,  cloth,  g.  e.  Fron- 
tispiece portrait.     B.M.^  Bod.,  S.    The  largest  size  found. 

Divine  Songs,  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language,  |  For 
the  Use  of  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  c^.^  |  Published 
by  John  and  Charles  Mozley,  Derby;  |  and  Paternoster  Row, 
London.  |  1867  |  pp.  72,  5^x3^^,  picture  boards,  half 
leather.  Frontispiece,  vignette  on  title  and  cut  at  head  of 
each  song.     .S. 

Watts's  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  (With  coloured  engrav- 
ings). London,  Edinburgh:  Nelson  and  Sons  (Printed  1867). 
8°.    B.M. 

Divine  &  Moral  |  Songs  for  Children.  |  By  Dr.  Watts.  | 
London  :  [  S.  W.  Partridge  and  Co.,  9  Paternoster  Row  | 
1867  (?).   pp.  80,  5^  X4i^,  cloth.   Decorated  page  borders 
and  profusely  illustrated  with  excellent  wood  engravings, 
signed  "W.  Cheshire".     B.M.,  U.T. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  (With  illustrations).  London  : 
Religious  Tracl  Society.    1869  (?).    8°.    B.M.,  Bod. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  .  .  .  The  music  composed  by 
E.  Thorne.     London :   1870  (?).    8°.     B.M. 

Hymnyn  ny  Arraneyn  Mayllee,  son  Paitchyn.  Liorish 
I.  Watts.  Peel:  W.  K.  Palmer,  printer.  Michael  Street. 
pp.  30,  12°.    1870  (?).     In  Manx. 

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The  Divine  and  <J)^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Beeton's  Watts's  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  1872  (?). 
Beeton's  Penny  Books.    16°.     B.M, 

Divine  Songs.  .  .  .  Original  and  altered  from  Watts.  By 
W.  A.  Pope.    1873.   8°.     B.M, 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  London  and 
Liverpool.    1873.     12°. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Utrecht:  1874  (?).  8°.  In 
Dutch.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  London :  Religious  Tra6l  So- 
ciety.   1875  (?).     16°.     B.M. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  .  .  .  Illustrated.  London. 
1875  (?).    16°.     B.M. 

Watts's  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  (Edited  by  H.  F.) 
London  :  (Chilworth  printed)  1877  (?).     16°.     B.M.,  Bod. 

Bible  Voices  for  the  Young.  Consisting  of  Watts'  Divine 
and  Moral  Songs ;  Scripture  Chara6lers ;  First,  Second  and 
Third  Catechisms,  etc.  2  pt  London :  Systematic  Bible 
Teachers  Depository.    1879  (?).    18°     B.M. 

Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  Illustrated.  London  : 
1879  (?).    8°.     B.M. 

Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  London  :  Frederick 
Warne  and  Co.  1880  (?).  cloth,  g.e.,  coloured  frontispiece 
and  50  illustrations. 

Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  London :  Religious 
Traa  Society.     1880  (?).    pp.  48,  24°.    B.M. 

Songs,    Divine    and    Moral.  .  .  .  Improved  edition  with 
engravings.    Glasgow:  G.  Cameron.    1883  (?).   pp.  64,  16° 
B.M. 

Thirty-one  Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  Glas- 
gow: Marr  and  Sons.    1883  (?).    pp.  31,  32°.     B.M, 

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Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  .  .  .  With  illustrations,  etc. 
London:  Religious  Tra6l  Society,    pp.  95,  8°.   B.M.^Bod. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  .  .  .  With  coloured  pi6lures  by 
Mrs.  A.  Gaskin.  London:  Elkin  Mathews.  1896  (?).  pp.  60, 
8°     B.M.    See  1901  (?). 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  London:  1897. 
8°.     Bod. 

Divine  :  and :  Moral  |  Songs :  For  Children.  |  By  the  : 
Reverend  |  Isaac:  Watts:  D.D.  |  Elkin  Mathews  |  Vigo  St 
London  |  1900  (?).  pp.  62,  5^  x  4^/^.  Thirteen  full-page 
pi6lures  in  color  by  Mrs.  Arthur  Gaskin :  glazed  pi6lure 
boards,  half  cloth. 

Divine :  and  :  Moral  |  Songs :  For  Children  |  By  the : 
Reverend  |  Isaac  :  Watts:  D.D.  |  Elkin  Mathews  |  Vigo  St 
London  |  1901  (?).  pp.  92,  7^x51^,  cloth,  with  full-page 
color  plates  by  Mrs.  Arthur  Gaskin. 


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FRONTISPIECE. 


Happy  the  Chil^  whofe  tender  years 

Receive  Inftrudtions  well : 
Who  hates  the  Sinner's  path,  and  fears 

The  road  that  leads  to  Hell. 


'The  <iAmerican  Sditions 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  use 
of  Children.  By  I.  Watts.  Boston:  Reprinted  17 19.  EvanSy 
2085. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,   ist  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  2nd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  3rd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  4th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  5th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  6th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  7th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  The 
Eighth  Edition.  London  printed:  Philadelphia:  Reprinted 
and  Sold  by  B.  Franklin  in  Market  Street.  1737.  Evans, 
4602.    Hild.,  567. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  New 
York:  Sold  by  James  Parker.    1744.    Evans,  55o8. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  New 
York :  Printed  and  Sold  by  Henry  De  Foreest  in  Wall- 
Street.     1747.     Evans,  6080. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  9th  edition.     NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Philadelphia,  loth  edition.     NR. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  By 
the  late  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  The  Eleventh  Edition.  Phila- 
delphia. B.  Franklin,  and  D.  Hall.  1749.  Evans,  6438. 
Hild.,  1 1 13. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  New 
York:  Printed  by  H.  Gaine.    1753.    Evans,  7134. 

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Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  By 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  Philadelphia:  Printed  by  James  Chattin. 
1757.  Evans,  8059.  Hild.y  1569. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  2nd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  3rd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  4th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  5th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  6th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  7th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  8th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  9th  edition.  NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  loth  edition.     NR. 

Divine  |  Songs  |  Attempted  |  In  easy  Language  |  for  the 
Use  of  I  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts.  |  The  Eleventh  Edition.  | 
Boston:   N.E.  |  Reprinted  and  Sold  by  Z.  Fowle  |  and  S. 
Draper,  opposite   to  the  |  Lion  &  Bell,  in  Marlboro-Street, 
I  1759-  I  pp.  iv  +  48.     5. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  Phila- 
delphia :  Printed  by  W.  Dunlap,  for  G.  Noel  and  Company, 
Booksellers  in  New  York.    1760.    12°.     Evans,  8764. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  New 
York  :  Printed  by  Hugh  Gaine,  1760.     Evans,  8765. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  12th  edition.     NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  13th  edition.     NR. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  The 
fourteenth  edition,  corre6led.  Boston :  Printed  for  John 
Perkins.    1771.   pp.  47,  12°.     Evans,  12272. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  New- 
London,  printed  and  sold  by  T.  Green.     1772.     Yale. 

Divine  Songs,  for  the  Use  of  Children.  By  I.  Watts. 
Printed    by   Joseph    Cruikshank:    Philadelphia    1772    (?). 

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The  T>ivine  and  zM^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Woodcut  portrait,  32°,  Wrappers.     Copy  sold  at  Libbie's, 
Boston,  Dec.  6-^^  1906. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  By 
Isaac  Watts.  Philadelphia  :  Printed  by  Joseph  Cruikshank 
for  Robert  Aitken.     1773.    Eva?ts,  13065.     Hild. ,  2g^6. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Newport :  Printed 
and  sold  by  Solomon  Southwick.     1773.     EvanSy  13066. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  Boston, 
N.E. :  printed  and  sold  by  T.  and  J.  Fleet,  at  the  Heart  and 
Crown  in  Cornhill.  1773.  pp.  46,  6^x3^,  wood-cut 
frontispiece  of  church.     A.  A. 

Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  Norwich  :  Green 
&  Spooner.  1777.  Advertised  August  i,  1777,  in  New 
England  Gazette.     Trum.,  1575. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Worcester,  Mass. : 
Isaiah  Thomas.  1778.  See  Proceedings  Amer.  Antiq.  Soc. 
New  Series.  Vol.  13,  p.  445.     Nick. 

Divine  Songs  for  Children.  By  Isaac  Watts.  Phila- 
delphia: Printed  by  Robert  Aitken,  1781.  EvanSy  17421. 
Hild.y  4167. 

Divine  Songs  for  Children.  By  Isaac  Watts,  also  Prayers 
and  Catechisms.     1783  (?).     pp.  64,  5^^x31^.     5. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  To 
which  is  added,  the  Wonderful  dream,  by  the  author.  Also 
four  delightful  and  entertaining  stories.  Norwich  :  Printed 
by  John  Trumbull.    1783.    18°.   Evans,  18294.  Trum.,  157. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  New- 
buryport,  m,dcc,lxxxiv.  John  Mycall.   pp.  $4,  41^  x  3.    B, 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Hartford,  ist  edition.     NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Hartford,  2nd  edition.     NR. 
Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Hartford,  3rd  edition.     NR, 

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Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

4th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford 

5th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford 

6th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

7th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford 

,  8th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford 

,  9th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford, 

loth  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

I  ith  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

1 2th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford, 

13th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

14th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford, 

15th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

1 6th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford, 

17th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

1 8th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford, 

19th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

20th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford, 

2 1st  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

22nd  edition. 

NR 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Hartford, 

23rd  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Hartford, 

24th  edition. 

NR. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  By 
I.  Watts,  D.D.  The  Twenty-fifth  Edition.  With  some  ad- 
ditional composures,  Hartford  :  Printed  and  sold  by  Z. 
Webster  a  few  rods  south-east  of  the  Court-House.  1 784  (?). 
pp.  48,  6x31^.     Conn. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  By  L 
Watts,  D.D.,  New  Haven,  Printed  by  J.  Meigs.  m,dcc,- 
Lxxxix.     6j^x3^.     Conn. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  15th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  i6th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  17th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  i8th  edition.  NR. 

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51st  edition.  NR. 

52nd  edition.  NR. 

53rd  edition.  NR. 


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Divine  Songs 

etc.. 

Boston, 

54th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

55th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

56th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

57th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

,  Boston 

,  58th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

59th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston 

60th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston 

,  6ist  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston 

,  62nd  edition.   NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston 

,  63rd  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston 

,  64th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

,  65th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

66th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

67th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

68th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

69th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

70th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

,  71st  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston 

72nd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

73rd  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston, 

74th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs 

,  etc. 

,  Boston 

,  75th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

76th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston 

,  77th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston 

,"78th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

79th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

80th  edition.    NR, 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston 

,  8ist  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc.. 

Boston, 

82nd;edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

,  etc., 

Boston 

,  83rd  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs 

,  etc. 

,  Boston 

,  84th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs 

,  etc., 

Boston 

,  85th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

etc., 

Boston 

,  86th'edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

,  etc., 

Boston 

,  87th  edition.    NR. 

Divine  Songs, 

,  etc.. 

Boston 

,  88th  edition.    NR. 

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Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  89th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  90th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  91st  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  92nd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  93rd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Boston,  94th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  |  Songs,  |  Attempted    in  |  Easy    Language  |  For 
the    use    of  |  Children.  |  By  |  Isaac    Watts,   D.D.  |  u^-ur^  \ 
The  Ninety-fifth  edition.  |  Boston  :  |  Printed  and  sold   by 
N.  Coverly.  |  Price  1 2   cents  |  Great  allowance  made  by  | 
the  Grose  or  Dozen.  |  1790  (?).    pp.  36,  5^x3)^.    B.M.^ 
5.,  B.,   Wat. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  By 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.,  Author  of  the  Lyric  Poems.  Middle- 
town :  Printed  by  Moses  H.  Wood  ware.  m,dcc,xc.  pp.  32, 
35^  X  2^.     Cut  on  reverse  of  title.     Conn. 

Divine  Songs,  Attempted  in  Easy  Language,  etc.  Bos- 
ton :  Printed  and  Sold  by  Samuel  Hall.  m,dcc,xcii.  pp. 
71,  32°,  one  illustration.     B.P. 


Divine   Songs  |  attempted    in  |  easy  language  |  for    the 
use  of  I   Children   |   By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |   Hartford:   | 
Printed  by  Elisha    Babcock  |  1794.  |  pp.   31,  4^  x  2j4, 
frontispiece,  marbled  paper  covers. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  attempted  in  easy  language  for 
the  use  of  Children.  Boston:  Samuel  Hall.  1796.  48°, 
illustrated,  wrappers  stitched.     Bos. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Haverhill,  Coverly,  ist  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Haverhill,  Coverly,  2nd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Haverhill,  Coverly,  3rd  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Haverhill,  Coverly,  4th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Haverhill,  Coverly,  5th  edition.  NR. 

Divine  Songs,  etc.,  Haverhill,  Coverly,  6th  edition.  NR. 

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Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
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Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
Divine 
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Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
Songs 
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Songs 
Songs 
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Haverhill,  Coverly,  7th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  8th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  9th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  loth  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  nth  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  12th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  13th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  14th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  15th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  i6th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  17th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  i8th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  19th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  20th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  21st  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  22nd  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  23rd  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  24th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  25th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  26th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  27th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  28th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  29th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  30th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  31st  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  32nd  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  33rd  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  34th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  35th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  36th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  37th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  38th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  39th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  40th  edition.  NR. 

Haverhill,  Coverly,  41st  edition.  NR. 


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Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 
Div 


ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 
ne  Songs 


etc., 
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etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc., 
etc.. 


Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 


,  Coverly,  42nd  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  43rd  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  44th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  45th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  46th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  47th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  48th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  49th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  50th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  51st  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  52nd  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  53rd  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  54th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  55th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  56th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  57th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  58th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  59th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  60th  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  6ist  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  62nd  edition.  NR. 

,  Coverly,  63rd  edition.  NR. 


ne  Songs 

Divine  |  Songs  |  attempted  |  in  |  Easy    Language,  |  for 
the    use    of  |  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts,    D.D.  |   :^ooq   | 
(The   sixty-fourth  Edition.)  Haverhill  :  |  Printed  and  sold 
by  N.   Coverly.  |  1797.  |  Price  Nine  pence.  |  pp.  34,  16°. 
Bos.,  Esx. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  attempted  in  easy  Language, 
for  the  use  of  Children.  Revised  and  corre6led.  By  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  Printed  and  sold  by  Samuel  Hall,  No.  53  Corn- 
hill.  Boston:  1799.  pp.  70,  4x3^,  pictorial  paper  covers. 
Wood-cut  frontispiece  and  wood-cuts  in  the  text.    Bos. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in   easy  language  for  the  use  of 
Children.     Salem.    1800.   pp.  48,  24*^.     Esx. 

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The  Divine  and  <^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

A  I  Choice  Colle6lion  |  of  |  Hymns,  |  and  |  Moral 
Songs;  I  Adapted  to  the  Capacities  of  Young  |  People,  |  on 
the  several  Duties  and  |  Incidents  of  Life.  |  Adorned  with 
Cuts,  to  impress  more  lasting  |  Ideas  of  each  Subje<5t  upon 
the  Mind,  than  |  can  be  attained  by  those  in  common  use.  | 
To  which  is  added,  |  Specimens  |  of  |  Divine  Poetry.  |  By 
several  Authors.  |  Hartford  :  |  Printed  by  John  Babcock.  | 
1 80 1  I  pp.  112,  5J^x2^,  paper  covered  oak  boards. 
Contains  about  half  the  Divine  Songs  and  all  but  one  of 
the  Moral  Songs.     5. 

Divine  Songs.  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language,  |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  6oos^»  |  To 
which  are  added,  |  The  Principles  |  of  the  |  Christian  Re- 
ligion, I  In  plain  and  easy  Verse.  |  By  P.  Doddridge,  D.D. 
I  New  York:  Printed  for  John  Tiebout,  |  No.  246  Water- 
Street,  I  By  L.Nichols.  |  1802.  |  pp.72,  5^  x  3)/^,  boards, 
half  leather,  eleven  oval  wood  cuts. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  in  easy  language  for  the  use  of 
Children.  By,  Isaac  Watts.  Charlestown :  1802.  32°, 
stitched.  Copy  sold  at  Libbie's,  Boston  Oct.  22-24,  ^9^7- 
See  1804. 

Divine   and   Moral  |  Songs,  |  for  |  Children.  |  By    Isaac 

Watts,  D.D.  I  Cambridge  |  Printed  at  the  University  press 

I  By  W.  Hillard.  |  mdccciii.  |  Num.   Edit.  4000  |  pp.  36, 

6x3^,  figured  paper  covers.     Arms  of  Phillips  Academy 

on  title.     A,A.,  Bos.,  Peg.,  N.  K,  ^. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs,  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  I  The  second  Cambridge  edition.  |  Printed  by 
W.  Hillard.  |  1804.  |  pp.  36,  6x4,  figured  paper  covers. 
Bos.,  S. 

Divine  Songs  Attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  use 
of  Children.  Providence:  Heaton  and  Williams.  1804. 
A,A. 

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T^he  T>ivine  and  z!htoral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs;  attempted  in  easy  language  for 
the  use  of  Children.  Revised  and  Corre6led.  Boston  : 
Hosea  Sprague.  No.  %Z  Newberry  St.  1804.  pp.  63, 
41^  X  2^,  illustrated.     B> 

Poetical  Works  ot  Isaac  Watts.  With  life  of  the  Author. 
Philadelphia:  B.  Johnson.  1804.  2  Vols.  16°.  2nd  Vol. 
contains  Divine  Songs  for  children,  Moral  Songs,  A  Cradle 
Hymn.     Bos. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for 
the  use  of  children  (also)  Catechisms  for  Children  and 
Youth,  Prayers,  etc.  By  Isaac  Watts.  Revised  and  Cor- 
rected.    New  Haven,  Conn.    1804.     Har. 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral  Songs,  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Lan- 
guage, I  for  I  the  Use  of  Children :  |  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D. 

I   ^JCTiun   I  Charlestown :  |  Printed  by  Samuel  Etheridge.  | 
Sold  by  him  |  at  the  Washington  Head  Bookstore.  |  1804. 

I  N.Y.S. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Hudson:  Stoddard. 
1805.     Bos. 

Martin  and    James  ;  or,  the  |  Reward  of  Integrity :  I  A 


Moral  Tale, 
New  York : 


Designed  for  the  Improvement  of  youth.  | 
Printed  and  sold  by  John  C.  Totten,  |  No. 
155  Chatham-Street,  |  where  may  be  had  a  variety  of  Chil- 
dren's Books.  I  1807.  I  pp.  72,  55^  X  3^,  marbled  paper 
covers,  wood-cuts.  Pages  56-72  contain  16  of  the  Divine 
Songs.     5. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  for  the 
Use  of  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  London  printed  | 
Hartford,  |  Reprinted    by  Hudson  and    Goodwin.  |  1807. 
I  pp.  120,  4^  X  3,  half  leather.     A.  A.,  B. 

Divine  Songs  (The  shorter  Catechism  agreed  upon  by 
the  Assembly  of  Divines,  etc.)  London  printed.  Hartford 
reprinted.    1807.   24°.     B.M. 

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The  "Divine  and  <J)(Coral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Watts'  I  Divine  Songs  |  For  the  use  of  |  Children  |  with 
plates.  I  G.  Love,  sc.  |  Philadelphia :  |  Published  by  J. 
Johnson.  |  1807.  |  pp.  52,  5^x3,  stiff  paper  covers.  En- 
graved title  page  with  vignette  of  cupids.  Engraved  frontis- 
piece and  12  crude  engravings.     A^.  Y.His.,  S. 

Divine  Songs  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  | 
ijor>un    I   Philadelphia :    |    Published    by    Benjamin  Johnson 
I  No.  249,  Market  Street  |  1807.  |  pp.  48,    16°.     Cut  on 
title,  The  Good  Samaritan,   and   17  small  cuts  in  text  by 
Anderson.     Bos.,  Penn.His. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  attempted  in  easy  language  for 
the  use  of  Children.  Boston:  Lincoln  &  Edmonds,  1808. 
pp.  47.     Bos. 

Divine  Songs  ;  |  For  Children.  |  Attempted  in  Easy  Lan- 
guage. I  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  Ornamented  with  Cuts.  |  m?^«/?o 
I  From  Sidney's  Press,  |  New  Haven.  |  1809.  |  pp.  36, 
5^x3^,  paper  covers.  Cut  on  front  cover  and  on  back 
cover.  Frontispiece  and  10  cuts  in  text.  Front  cover 
bears,  Published  by  I.  Cooke  &  Co.  New  Haven.  N.  V. 
His.,  A.A.,  S. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  easy  Language  for  the  use  of 
Children.  Newburyport.  1809  (?).  pp.  37,  24°,  illustrated. 
Esx. 

Divine  Songs  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language,  |  For 
the  Use  of  |  Children.  |  By  I.  Watts,  D.D.  |  ^u^  |  Utica: 
I  Printed  and  sold  by  Seward  and  Williams.  |  18 10.  |  pp. 
36,  5x3,  oak  boards,  paper  covered,  half  leather.  Vignette 
on  title,  wood-cut  head  and  tail  pieces  in  text.  Includes 
Dodridge's  Principles  of  the  Christian  Religion.  N.  Y. 
Bis.,  A.A. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  use  of 
Children.     Newburyport:    Gilman.     1810.     pp.     48,    24 
plates.     Bos.,  Esx.    See  181 1  (?). 

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T^he  T>tvine  and<J)(Coral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Songs,  Divine  and  Moral  by  I.  W.  6^/.  New  York : 
S.  Wood.  357  Pearl  St.  1811.  Offered  on  leaf  of  adv.  at 
back  of  The  Seven  Wonders  of  the  World.  Wood,  181 1. 
N.  Y.,  S. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  use 
of   Children.     Walpole    (N.H.):    Isaiah    Thomas    &    Co. 

1811.  S'A^S'A-    A. A. 

Divine  Songs.     Newburyport :  W.   and  J.   Gilman.    pp. 

26.     181 1  (?).     Bry. 

Watts'   Divine  Songs.    Portland,  Me. :  A.  Lyman  &  Co. 

181 2.  12^.    Offered  on  back  of  Arithmetical  Tables.    Port- 
land: Lyman.     18 12. 

Divine  and  Moral   Songs  for  Children.     Newburyport. 

181 3.  Har. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Andover,  Mass.  : 
New  England  Tra6l  Society,  No.  32.    18 14.    A. A.,  B.A. 

Dr.  Watts'  Plain  and  Easy  Catechisms  for  Children :  To- 
gether with  a  colle6lion  of  Hymns  and  Prayers.  Middle- 
town  (Conn.):  Printed  and  Published  by  Clark  &  Lyman. 
1st  ed.     NR.     See  4th  ed.  1818;  5th  ed.  1819. 

Dr.  Watts'  Plain  and  Easy  Catechisms,  etc.  Middletown. 
2nd  ed.     NR. 

Dr.  Watts'  Plain  and  Easy  Catechisms,  etc.  Middletown. 
3rd  ed.    NR. 

Dr.  Watts'  Plain  and  Easy  Catechisms,  etc.  Middletown. 
1818  (?).  4th  ed.  pp.  36,  5^  X  3)^.  Pages  20-32  contain 
12  divine  and  2  moral  songs. 

A  I  Plain  and  Easy  |  Catechism  |  For  Children.  |  By 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  To  which  are  added,  |  Divine  Songs, 
By  the  Same  Author.  |  Boston :  |  Printed    by    Parmenter 

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The  T>ivine  and^J^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

and  Norton    |    1818.  |   pp.    16,   4J^  x  2^,    paper  covers. 
Pages  12-16  contain  four  of  the  songs. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs  for  the  Use  of  Children.  New 
Haven  :  Sidney's  Press.  18 18.  48°,  paper  covers.  Copy- 
sold  at  Libbie's,  Boston,  March  12,  13,  191 3. 

Dr. Watts'  |  Plain  and  Easy  |  Catechisms  |  For  |  Children: 
I  Together  with  a  Colle6lion  of  |  Hymns  and  Prayers  | 
Fifth  Middletown  Edition  |  Middletown  (Conn.):  |  Printed 
and  Published  by  Clark  &  Lyman.  |  18 19.  |  pp.  36,  5J^  x 
3^,  paper  covers.  Pages  21-31  contain  12  divine  and  2 
moral  songs.     S. 

Divine  Songs  for  Children.  By  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  To 
which  is  added  Catechisms  and  Prayers  for  Sunday  Schools. 
New  Haven:  A.  H.  Maltby  &Co.  18 19.  pp.  36,  51^  x  3  J^, 
stiff  paper  covers.     A. A. 

Songs,  Divine  and  Moral,  for  Children.  Albany :  G.  J. 
Loomis  and  Co.  18 19.  24°,  paper.  Copy  sold  at  Libbie's, 
Dec.  6,  7,  1906. 

Divine  Songs  attempted  in  Easy  Language  for  the  use  of 
Children.     Boston:  S.  T.  Armstrong.     1 8 19.    pp.   36,  24°. 
Frontispiece  and  cuts  in  text.    A.A.^  Har. 

Watts'  I  Divine  Songs  |  For  the  use  of  Children.  |  Sid- 
ney's Press  I  For  John  Babcock  and  Son,  New  Haven,  | 
S.  and  W.  R.  Babcock,  163  King  St,  |  Charleston,  and 
M'Carty  and  Davis,  Philadelphia.  |  1820.  |  pp.  31,  5^  x 
3/4-  Wood-cut  frontispiece  and  cuts  in  text,  by  Anderson. 
B.,  Peq.     See  1824,  1830,  1831,  1838,  1840,  1842. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  etc.,  Andover,  ist  ed.  A^^. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  etc.,  Andover,  2nd  ed.  NR. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  etc.,  Andover,  3rd  ed.  NR. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  etc.,  Andover,  4th  ed.  NR. 

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The  T>ivine  and<J)(toral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Andover :  Flagg 
and  Gould.  5th  edition.  1820.  (New  England  Tra6l  So- 
ciety.  Pub.  No.  32).     pp.  20,  16°.     Bos. 

Watts'  Hymns,  Ornamented  with  38  handsome  engrav- 
ings, 25  cts.  Hartford:  George  Goodwin  and  Sons.  1820. 
Offered  under  Books  for  Children  on  back  of  New  En- 
gland Primer.  Geo.  Goodwin  and  Sons,  Hartford.  1820. 
See  1822. 

Dr.  Watts'  Divine  Songs,  |  for  |  Children.  |  Hartford  :  | 
Printed  and  Sold  by  G.  Goodwin  &  Sons.  |  1822.  |  pp.  22, 
paper  covers,    5^  x  2^.    Front   cover    is    the  title  page. 
Vignette  on  title  and  6  wood-cuts  in  text. 

Songs,  Divine  and  Moral,  for  the  use  of  Children. 
Geneva,  N.  Y.  :  James  Bogert.  1823.  pp.  24,  5)^  x2j^. 
Bry. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs.  New  Haven :  J.  Babcock  and 
Son.     1824.     pp.  31,  illustrated. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  New  York: 
American  Tra6l  Society.     1825.     12°.     Bos. 


Songs,  I  Divine  and  Moral,  |  By  |  Isaac  Watts,  D.D. 
Embellished  with  numerous  engravings  |  uri^xr.  |  Revised 
by  the  Committee  of  Publication  of  the  |  American  Sun- 
day-School Union.  |  Philadelphia :  |  American  Sunday- 
School  Union.  |  No.  316  Chestnut  Street.  |  First  edition, 
1826.  pp.  90,  6x3^,  cloth.  Frontispiece  and  numerous 
wood-cuts  in  text. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  the  Rev, 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  v?^!/w  |  Published  by  the  |  American 
Tracl  Society,  |  150  Nassau  St.,  New  York.  |  1830  (?).  pp. 
48,  4^  X  25^,  paper  covers,  frontispiece,  cut  on  title  and 
three  cuts  in  text.     N.  Y. 

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The  T>ivine  and  zJM^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Watts'  Divine  Songs  for  the  use  of  Children.  With 
handsome  engravings.  New  Haven :  S.  Babcock ;  Charles- 
ton :  S.  Babcock  &  Co.  1830.  pp.  23,  5J^  x  31^,  illus- 
trated, yellow  paper  covers.     B, 

Divine  Songs.  |  Attempted  in  |  Easy  Language  |  For  the 

I  Use    of  Children.  |  By    I.    Watts,     D.D.  |  New   York: 

Mahlon   Day,    374   Pearl   St.  |  1830  (?).     3^x3,    cloth. 

Frontispiece  and  numerous  cuts  in  text.     N.  Y.    See  1832. 

Hymns  for  Children  :  By  Doctor  Watts.  New  Haven : 
S.  Babcock.  1831.  pp.  16,  3J^x2,  illustrated,  yellow 
paper  covers.     B. 

Watts'  I  Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs.  |  For  the  use  of 
Children  |  ^^^  \  New  York  :  Printed  and  Sold  by  Mahlon 
Day,  I  At  the  New  Juvenile  Book-Store,  |  No.  376,  Pearl- 
Street.  I  1832.  I  pp.  23,  5  J^  X  3J^,  wood-cuts. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  New  York : 
American  Tra6l  Society.  1833  (?).  pp.  16,  4)4  x  2^, 
illustrated,  brown  paper  covers.     B. 

Dr.  Watts'  |  Divine  Songs.  |  First  Part.  |  Northampton: 
I  John  Metcalf  ...  1837.  |  pp.  24,  5^  x  3^.     Frontis- 
piece, vignette  on  title  and  cuts  in  text ;   1 3  of  the  Divine 
Songs.     5. 

Watts'  Divine  Songs;  for  the  use  of  Children.  New 
Haven:  S.  Babcock.     1838.    pp.  24,  5^x3^.     B. 

Infant  Hymns.  Designed  for  young  Children.  New 
Haven :  S.  Babcock.  1840.  pp.  16,  3^x2,  illustrated, 
blue  paper  covers.     B. 

Infant  Hymns;  Designed  for  young  Children.  New 
Haven:  S.  Babcock.  1842  (?).  pp.  16,  3^  x  2 1^,  illus- 
trated, paper  covers.     B. 

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The  T)ivine  and  zM^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

Questions  and  Answers,  Taken  from  Dr.  Watts's  Hymns 
for  Children,     Boston  :   ist  edition.     NR. 

Questions  and  Answers,  Taken  from  Dr.  Watts's  Hymns 
for  Children.  (By  A.  Bullard).  2nd  edition.  Boston : 
Massachusetts  Sabbath  School  Society.     1843.   32°.     Har. 

Songs,  Divine  and  Moral.  .  .  .  To  which  are  added, 
a  few  prayers,  etc.  Boston  (Mass.)  (Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  of  Massachusetts  No.  8).  1844.  pp.  44,  12°. 
B.M.,  Har. 

Songs,  Divine  and  Moral,  by  I.  Watts.  Philadelphia, 
1844.     Copy  sold  at  Merwin-Clayton's,  Nov.  22-24,  191 1. 

Songs,  I  Divine  and  Moral,  |  For  the  use  of  Children.  | 
By    Isaac    Watts,  D.D,  |  Complete    edition,  |  with    twelve 
fine  engravings  on  wood.  |  Worcester :  |  Published  by  C. 
Harris.  |  1845.  |  pp.  72,  4^  x  3  J^,  cloth.   Frontispiece  por- 
trait.    5. 

Songs,  I  Divine  and  Moral,  |  For  the  use  of  Children.  | 
By  Isaac  Watts,    D.D.  |  Complete    edition,  |  with   twelve 
fine  engravings  on  wood.  |  Boston :  |  Published  by  William 
Henshaw.  |  No.  9  Cornhill.  |  1845  (?)•     PP-  64,  5%^  ^41^, 
paper.     Same  cuts  and  printer  as  item  above.     5. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  for  Children.  Revised  by  the 
Committee  of  Publication.  Massachusetts  Sabbath  School 
Society.  Boston:  1845.  PP-  48,4^^x2^,  paper.  Frontis- 
piece and  cuts  in  text.     Bry. 

Songs,  Divine  and  Moral,  for  Children.  New  York :  C. 
Wells.    1845.   Cuts.     A. A, 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Philadelphia : 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Publication.  1845.  Cloth,  illustrated. 
First  edition. 

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Songs,  I  Divine  and  Moral,  |  By  |  Isaac  Watts,  D.D. 
Embellished  with  numerous  engravings.  |  oooc/^  |  Revised 
by  the  Committee  of  Publication  of  the  |  American  Sunday- 
School  Union.  |  Philadelphia:  |  American  Sunday-School 
Union,  |  No  316  Chestnut  Street.  |  1846  (?).  pp.  90,  6  x 
3  J^,  cloth.     Frontispiece  and  numerous  cuts  in  text.     Bro. 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral  Songs  |  For  |  Children.  |  By  Rev. 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  Published  by  the  |  American  Tra6l 
Society,  |  150  Nassau-Street,  New  York.  |  1846  (?).  pp. 
64,  41^  x2^,  paper.  Frontispiece,  vignette  on  title  and 
five  cuts  in  text.     N.  F.,  6". 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  For  |  The  Use  of  Children. 
I  By  I  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  with  twenty-four  illustrations,  | 
Drawn  on  the  wood  by  C.W.  Cope.  |  Philadelphia:  |  George 
S.  Appleton,  164  Chestnut  Street.  |  New  York :  |  D.  Ap- 
pleton  &  Co.,  200  Broadway.  |  mdcccl.  |  pp.  124,  5j4  x 
4^,  cloth,  illustrated.     B.    See  1851. 

Watts'  I  Divine  Songs:  |  for  the  |  Use  of  Children.  |  "Let 
the  sweet  work  of  prayer  and  praise  ",  etc.  [in  four  lines]  | 
New  Haven:  |  Published  by  S.  Babcock.  |  1850.  |  pp.  16, 
4^  X  2^,  paper.     Cuts  in  text.     One  of  a  set  of    12  toy 
books.     5. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  For  |  The  Use  of  Children 
I  By  I  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  With  twenty-four  illustrations 
I  Drawn  on  the  wood  by  C.  W.  Cope.  |  Philadelphia :  | 
George  S.  Appleton  &  Co.,  164  Chestnut  Street.  |  mdcccli. 
I  pp.  124+4  of  adv.,  5^x4^,  cloth,  gilt.     Sixteen  full- 
page,  hand-colored  wood  engravings  and  several  uncolored 
cuts  in  text.    Cuts  engraved  by  H.  Bricker.    5.    See  1856. 

Horae   Lyricae  and  Divine  Songs,  |  By  |  Isaac  Watts,  | 
with  a   Memoir,  |  By  Robert   Southey.  |  Boston :  |  Little, 
Brown  and  Company.  |  New  York :  Evans  and  Dickerson. 

Philadelphia:  Lippincott,  Grambo  and  Co.  |  m.dccc.liv. 

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The  T>ivine  and  <iP)(toral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

pages  348,  6^x  4j^,  cloth.  Engraved  frontispiece  portrait. 
Pages  293-348  contain  the  Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  5., 
B.A.    See  1864,  1866. 

Horae  Lyricae  |  By  |  Isaac  Watts  |  To  which  are  added 
The  Divine  Songs  |  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children  |  With 
a  life  of  the  Author  |  By  Robert  Southey.  |  Boston:  |  Little, 
Brown  and  Company.  |  1854.  B.P.  Differs  from  item 
above  only  in  wording  of  title-page. 

Little  I  Hymn  Book  |  Worcester :  |  Published  by  S.  A. 
Rowland.  |  Henry  A.  Holland,  Printer.  |  1855  (?).  3>^x3. 
Three  little  song  books  bound  together  under  one  general 
title :  Watts'  Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  Hymns  for  Infant 
Minds,  and  The  Juvenile  Songster. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  |  for  |  the  use  of  Children.  |  By 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  New  York:  |  Robert  Carter  &  Bro.  | 
1856.  I  With  24  illustrations  drawn  on  the  wood  by  C.  W. 
Cope.     55^  X  4J^.     Some  of  the  prints  are  colored.     N.  Y. 

Divine  |  and  Moral  Songs.  |  Attempted  |  in  Easy  Lan- 
guage I  For  the  |  Use  of  Children  |  With  some  |  Addition- 
al Composures.  |  Philadelphia  |  American  Sunday-School 
Union,  etc.  j  1857  (?).  pp.  96,  9^  x  5^,  grain  morocco, 
stamped  in  gold.  Frontispiece  and  wood  engravings  in 
text,  some  after  Cope. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  etc.  New  York :  American 
Traa  Society.     1858  (?).     Gilt  10^,  paper  3^. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Philadelphia : 
American  Sunday-School  Union,  i860  (?).  pp.  48,  8°, 
cloth,  illustrated.     Bos. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Philadelphia : 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Publication.    1 860.   Cloth,  illustrated. 

Horae  Lyricae  |  By  |  Isaac  Watts.  |  To  which  are 
added  the  Divine  Songs  |  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children. 

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The  T^ivine  and  <J^oral  Songs  of  Isaac  Watts 

With  a  life  of  the  Author,  |  By  Robert  Southey.  |  Boston  : 
I  Little,  Brown    and    Company  |  m.dccc.lxiv.  |   pp.    368, 
7Ji  X  3  J^.     The  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  occupy  pp.  313- 
368.     L.L 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral  Songs  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  Rev. 
Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  Published  by  the  |  American  Tra6l 
Society,  |  28  Cornhill,  Boston.  |  1864  (?).  pp.  64,  4^  x 
2^  cloth.   Illustrated  with  wood  engravings  by  J.  Hyde.    5. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs.  New  York :  J.  W.  Strong- 
Colored  covers.  Offered  as  one  of  Three-cent  toys,  per 
gross  ;^2.2  5,  on  back  of  Children's  Pidlorial  Alphabet. 
J.  W.  Strong,  New  York  :  98  Nassau  St.  1864  (?). 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  etc.  New  York :  American 
Tra6l  Society.     1865  (?).     Paper,  gilt  5^. 

Divine  |  and  |  Moral  Songs  |  attempted  |  in  easy  lan- 
guage, I  for  the  I  Use  of  Children,  |  with  some  additional 
composures.  |  c/j^e/w  |  Philadelphia:  |  American  Sunday- 
School  Union,  |  No.  316  Chestnut  Street.  Boston:  No.  9 
Cornhill.  |  Cincinnati:  41  West  Fourth  Street.  |  Louisville: 
103  Fourth  Street.  |  1865  (?).  9^  x  5^',  cloth,  illustrated. 
Gen. 

The  I  Poetical  works  |  of  |  Isaac  Watts.  |  With  a  mem- 
oir. I  Boston :  |  Little,  Brown  and  Company.  |  1 866.  |  pp. 
368,  7^  X  3^.  The  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  occupy  pp. 
313-368.     N.Y. 

Divine  and  Moral  |  Songs  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  |  Isaac 
Watts,  D.D.  I  Illustrated.  |  New  York:  |  Hurd  and  Hough- 
ton I  401  Broadway  |  1866  |  pp.  116,  7^  x  5^,  cloth. 
New.y  S. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs,  etc.  New  York :  American  Tradl 
Society.     1870  (?).     Cloth  15^,  paper  6/. 

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Divine   and    Moral  |  Songs  |  for  |  Children.  |  By  the  | 
Rev.  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  |  Illustrated  by  anecdotes  and  re- 
flections. I  Embellished   with   beautiful  wood-cuts.  |  Phila- 
delphia: I   Presbyterian  Board   of  Publication.  |   pp.    144, 
5^x  3^,  cloth.    1872.     U.T. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Philadelphia: 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Publication.   Cloth,  illustrated.    1882. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Philadelphia  : 
Presbyterian  Board  of  PubHcation.   Paper,  illustrated.    1883. 

Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  Children.  Philadelphia : 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Publication.    Cloth,  illustrated.    1886. 

Poems ;  or  Divine  and  Moral  Songs  for  the  use  of  Chil- 
dren.    New  York,  1889  (?).     Bry. 

Songs  for  Children  in  easy  Language.  By  Isaac  Watts. 
Illustrated  by  C.  W.  Cope.  Engraved  by  John  Thompson. 
Boston:].  Earle,  1892.    pp.  94.    See  Brit,  list,  1848.    L.C. 

Childhood's  Songs  of  long  ago.     Being  some  of  the  di- 
vine and  moral  songs  written  by  Rev.  Isaac  Watts.     With 
pi6lures  by  Blanche  McManus.    New  York :  Herrick  &  Co. 
1897.     pp.  Zy,  sq.  8°.     Bos. 

Divine :    and :    Moral  |  Songs :  |  For  Children  |  By  the : 

Reverend  |  Isaac:  Watts:  D.D.  |  L.  C.  Page  &  Company. 

I  Boston  I  1 90 1.  I  pp.  92,  7^x5J^,  cloth.     13  full-page 

plates  in  color  by  Mrs.  Arthur  Gaskin.    See  Brit,  list,  1896. 

Bry.y  Bos.y  S, 


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